Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

AQA approved

Enhance and expand your students' knowledge and understanding of their AQA breadth study through expert narrative, progressive skills development and bespoke essays from leading historians on key debates.

- Builds students' understanding of the events and issues of the period with authoritative, well-researched narrative that covers the specification content

- Introduces the key concepts of change, continuity, cause and consequence, encouraging students to make comparisons across time as they advance through the course

- Improves students' skills in tackling interpretation questions and essay writing by providing clear guidance and practice activities

- Boosts students' interpretative skills and interest in history through extended reading opportunities consisting of specially commissioned essays from practising historians on relevant debates

- Cements understanding of the broad issues underpinning the period with overviews of the key questions, end-of-chapter summaries and diagrams that double up as handy revision aids

The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975

This title explores the era of reconstruction, the development of the US as an economic power, its role in international affairs, domestic issues and its emergence as a superpower. It considers breadth issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period through examining key questions on themes such as governance, economy, society, the role of the USA in world affairs, ideology and the impact of key individuals.

This book is part of a book series called Aqa a Level History .

This book has been graded for interest at 16+ years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This is a study guide book. This book was published 2015 by Hodder & Stoughton General Division .

Steve Waugh is an experienced author of GCSE textbooks for a major awarding body.