Description: Further DetailsTitle: America and the WorldCondition: NewEAN: 9781421402963ISBN: 9781421402963Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/26/2012Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 19mmItem Weight: 431gAuthor: Lawrence A. Peskin, Edmund F. WehrleLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Culture, Commerce, ConflictISBN-10: 1421402963Description: While the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago. Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F. Wehrle explore America's evolving connections with Europe, Africa, and Asia in the three areas that historically have been the indicators of global interaction: trade and industry, diplomacy and war, and the "soft" power of ideas and culture. Framed in four chronological eras that mark phases in the long history of globalization, this book considers the impact of international events and trends on the American story as well as the influence America has exerted on world developments. Peskin and Wehrle discuss how the nature of this influence-whether economic, cultural, or military-fluctuated in each period. They demonstrate how technology and disease enabled Europeans to subjugate the New World as well as how colonial-American products transformed Europe and Africa and how post-revolutionary American ideas helped foment revolutions in Europe and elsewhere.Next, the authors explore the American rise to global economic and military superpower-and how the accumulated might of the United States alienated many people around the world and bred dissent at home. During the civil rights movement, America borrowed much from the world as it sought to address the crippling "social questions" of the day at the same time that Americans-especially African Americans-offered a global model for change as the country strove to address social, racial, and gender inequality. Lively and accessible, America and the World draws on the most recent scholarship to provide a historical introduction to one of today's vital and misunderstood issues.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: America and the World
Title: America and the World
EAN: 9781421402963
ISBN: 9781421402963
Release Date: 01/26/2012
Release Year: 2012
Subtitle: Culture, Commerce, Conflict
ISBN-10: 1421402963
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: America and the World : Culture, Commerce, Conflict
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Subject: Political Economy, Globalization, International Relations / General, World, Public Policy / Economic Policy, United States / General
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Edmund F. Wehrle, Lawrence A. Peskin
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback