Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 317 pages)
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Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300100086
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0300148526
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9780300100082
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9780300148527
Content:
"In this book, the historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of the "two Americas" (Theodore Roosevelt's America and the contrasting America described by the Cuban revolutionary, essayist, and poet Jose Marti) and culminating with recent controversial efforts to forge a united hemisphere." "Tracing the interactions and influences among the nations of South, Central, and North America, including Canada, Langley departs from other accounts of the past 150 years. He argues that the seedtime for the Americas of the early twenty-first century was not the Cold War but the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also contends that it is not what the countries and peoples of the Americas have in common that binds them; instead, their cultural, political, and economic conflicts tie them together."--Jacket
Content:
Theodore Roosevelt's America -- Jose Marti's America -- The end of the long century -- The fractured continent -- The decade of global war -- The cold war -- The critical decade -- Order and progress
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Langley, Lester D Americas in the modern age New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003
Language:
English
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