Moscow, Nauka Publ. 1983. 688 p. The study of the history of the United States of America is one of the most important tasks of Soviet historical science. In the decades that have passed since the publication of Essays on the Modern and Contemporary History of the United States (vols. 1-2, Moscow, 1960), Soviet American studies has achieved considerable success. Key issues of American history are analyzed in monographs, collections, and scientific articles. All this opened up opportunities for the preparation of a new, more detailed, generalizing work on the history of the United States. Representative research teams participate in its creation. The authors of the first volume 1 expand a broad panorama of important periods of American history, analyze the diverse processes and changes in the economy, in the political and ideological life of the country in all their complex, criticize the concepts of bourgeois scientists, and show the failure of the theory of "American exclusivity". The volume covers a significant period-from the description of the life of the indigenous people of North America and the foundation of the first European (mainly English) settlements to the end of the civil war and the Reconstruction period. The material is grouped into four sections: I-Education of the United States; II-Ways of developing capitalism; III-Civil War and Reconstruction; IV-Science and Culture. A special chapter is devoted to the issues of historiography: the formation of historical science in the United States, modern historiography, etc.- 1 Authors ' team: M. S. Alperovich, T. V. Alentyeva, S. M. Askoldova, N. N. Bolkhovitinov, L. N. Goncharov, R. F. Ivanov, M. M. Koreneva, G. N. Sevostyanov, L. Yu. Slezkin, S. Yu. Sigida, V. V. Sogrin, B. M. Shpotov, T. S. Yuryeva, A. A. Fursenko. Editorial Board: G. N. Sevostyanov (chief editor). G. A. Arbatov, N. N. Bolkhovitinov, G. M. Kornienko, G. P. Kuropyatnik, V. L. Malkov, N. V. Mostovets, N. V. Sivachev, G. A. Agafonova (academ ... Read more