THE GILDED AGE 1876-1912 OVERTURE TO THE AMERICAN CENTURY ALAN AXELROD
The Gilded Age is the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the era of rapid economic growth in the United States between the 1870s and about 1900. This book looks at how this period presaged our own time. Photographs, political cartoons, engravings and other ephemera help bring this fascinating period into focus.
ISBN: 9781454925750 • £22.99 • HB WITH JACKET 224 X 173 MM • 272 PAGES • FULL COLOUR THROUGHOUT AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2017
PEARL HARBOR: 75 YEARS LATER A DAY OF INFAMY AND ITS LEGACY EDITORS OF LIFE
On 7th December, 1941, the Japanese Empire stunned the world with a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour. LIFE presents this historic story in photographs and features copies of LIFE’s actual pages in the ten days after the attack, as America mobilised and went to war. The concluding chapter covers today’s modern tensions in the waters of the Far East.
ISBN: 9781618931764 • £30.00 • HB 305 X 222 MM • 192 PAGES • B/W & FULL COLOUR THROUGHOUT AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2017
