A Nation Among Nations
America's Place in World History
Bender, Thomas
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BOOK SUMMARY
"An original, ambitious, and consistently provocative book that should change the way we study and teach American history." Eric Foner, Columbia University In this major book, Thomas Bender recasts the developments central to American history by setting
BOOK SYNOPSIS
"An original, ambitious, and consistently provocative book that should change the way we study and teach American history." --Eric Foner, Columbia University In this major book, Thomas Bender recasts the developments central to American history by setting them in a global context, and showing both the importance and ordinariness of America's international entanglements over five centuries.
Bender focuses on five major themes, beginning with 1492 and "the age of discovery," when people everywhere first felt the transforming effects of oceanic trade. He asks us to see our Revolution as one of several similar rebellions around the globe, and the Civil War as part of a larger history associating the new meaning of nationhood with freedom. He also examines the American commitment to empire from Jefferson's presidency to our own time, and makes it clear that America's responses to capitalist industrialization and urbanization were part of a worldwide conversation.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A sophisticated polemic combining intellectual precision with moral passion, written for a general audience in lively prose that is neither condescending nor arcane. Bender does not pretend to write an exhaustive history of the United States but rather whets our appetite with tastes of his global and spatial revisionism." --Tony Platt, San Francisco Chronicle
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0809072351
ISBN(13-digit): 9780809072354
Dewey Decimal: 973
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 368
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