A new history of America, analytical, critical and in epic form by political scientist Alfred de Grazia, summing up a life-long involvement with the processes at work in the making of America and its projection into the world. This Volume One covers the Native American cultures from Pre-Columbian times and examines anthropological and human accretions of successives waves of immigration. It follows the colonial history of the United States all the way to the heady times of the Declaration Independence and through the first years of the young Republic.