America, America - A New History of the New World

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes the first definitive history of the Western hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both continents. The story of the United States'' unique sense of itself was forged facing south - no less than Latin America''s was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Professor Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from constant, turbulent engagement with each other, shedding new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolome de las Casas, Simon Bolivar and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who almost lost his head in the French Revolution and conspired with Alexander Hamilton to free America from Spain. America, America traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest - the greatest mortality event in human history - through the eighteenth-century wars for independence and the Monroe Doctrine, to the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century. This monumental work of scholarship fundamentally changes our understanding of racism, the rise of universal humanism, and the role of social democracy in staving off extremism. At once comprehensive and accessible, America, America shows how the United States and Latin America together shaped the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world. Drawing on a vast array of sources, and told with authority and flair, this is a genuinely new history of the New World.

Info autore

Greg Grandin is the author of The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize; The Empire of Necessity, which won both the Bancroft and Beveridge Prizes in American history; and Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and a number of other widely acclaimed books. He is C. Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.

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Compelling and written with zest...Don't be surprised if he wins another Pulitzer Financial Times

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Greg Grandin
• Editore: Random House Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9781911709916
• ISBN: 978-1-911709-91-6
• Pagine: 768
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 232 mm x 41 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Latin America, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1492 to c 1690 (Spanish Golden Age or ‘Siglo de oro’), Pre-Columbian America, Mesoamerican cultures / civilisations, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery