AMERICA, AMÉRICA - 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 Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar 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, América 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 slavery and racism, the rise of universal humanism, and the role of social democracy in staving off extremism. At once comprehensive and accessible, America, América 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.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
GRANDIN GREG
Greg Grandin 1962 es historiador y escritor estadounidense, profesor en la Universidad de Yale. Especializado en política exterior de EE. UU. y América Latina, ha publicado obras como Fordl ndia y The End of the Myth, esta última ganadora del Premio Pulitzer de No Ficción en 2020. También ha colaborado con medios como The Nation y The New York Times, abordando temas como el imperialismo, la guerra fría y los derechos humanos.
