The Americas: - A History of Two Continents

Informationen zum Autor Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a Professorial Fellow in History and Geography at Queen Mary College, London, and a member of the faculty of modern history at Oxford University. He is the author of ten books and the editor of several more, including the TIMES ATLAS OF WORLD EXPLORATION. He is a frequent journalist and has presented "Analysis" on BBC Radio 4. Klappentext A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians. Zusammenfassung A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians. With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez- Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the enlightened `first world' United States and Canada, and less privileged `Latin America'. He shows us why it is impossible to understand the history of North, Central and South America in isolation. From the emergence of the first human civilisations through the arrival of Europeans and up to today, the land mass has been bound together in a complex web of inter-relationships - from migration and trade to religion, slavery, warfare, culture, food and the spread of political ideas. For most of human history, it was the South that dominated the North - and, as he argues in his provocative conclusion, it might well again

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• Authors: Felipe Fernandez-Armes, Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.11.2004
• EAN: 9780753818022
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-1802-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Orion Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Amerika (Kontinent) : Geschichte, HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of the Americas, Hispanic & Latino Studies