Manfred Berg offers a concise and expert presentation of the 'classical' themes of US history: cultural contact and conflict with indigenous peoples, westward expansion, slavery, race relationships and ethnic diversity, immigration, religious pluralism, the founding and growth of the federalism, the expansion of democracy, the development of the modern industrial and consumer society, and the US ascension to a global superpower.

Manfred Berg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg