The Americas in the Modern Age / Martin Austin Nesvig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nesvig, Martin Austin, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--History--1810-.

America.

North America--History.

North America.

Latin America--History.

Latin America.

North America--Relations--Latin America.

Latin America--Relations--North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 José Martí) 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

A Note on Usage

Introduction

1. Theodore Roosevelt's America

2. José Martí's America

3. The End of the Long Century

4. The Fractured Continent

5. The Decade of Global War

6. The Cold War

7. The Critical Decade

8. Order and Progress

Epilogue

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300148527

0300148526

OCLC:

861793064