By Jeremy Black. Hardbound, 470 pages, 6"x9". The author examines the history of the competition for control of North America from the landing of the Spanish troops in Mexico in 1519 to British acceptance of American Mastery in North America. The gradual withdraw of France and Spain from the continent, the British accommodation to the reality of an expanding United States, the impact of the American Civil War, and the subjugation of Native peoples are all carefully drawn out.