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Americas in the Modern Age
Contributor(s): Langley, Lester D. (Author)
ISBN: 0300107684     ISBN-13: 9780300107685
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE:   $50.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2005
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Annotation: In this wide-ranging book, 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 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 today' s Americas was not the Cold War but the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also contends that it is not what the countries and people of the Americas have in common that binds them; instead, their cultural, political, and economic conflicts tie them together. Comprehensive and balanced, this history of the nations of the Americas offers new insights into both the past and the future of inter-American relations.

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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 19th Century
- History | United States - 20th Century
Dewey: 821.1
LCCN: 2003001157
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.88" W x 8.9" (0.97 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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In this wide-ranging book, 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