The Americas In The Modern Age
Download The Americas In The Modern Age full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Americas In The Modern Age ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Lester D. Langley |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300107685 |
Download The Americas in the Modern Age Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Stephen Burman |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312019716 |
Download America in the Modern World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The past few years have witnessed changes which will be of lasting significance in international affairs. The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, for example, are fundamental not only for those societies but also in their implications for the rest of the world. They signal the passing of the international order that has governed the post war era. Since the United States was the principal architect of that order, its passing will have fundamental implications for America's role in the modern world. It has been suggested that this transformation will reduce the US to the status of an ordinary country, indeed that the signs of decline are already everywhere apparent. In this book, the author argues to the contrary that the emerging new world order offers great opportunities to the US to maintain its status as the leading power in the world.
Author | : Richard Snow |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451645570 |
Download I Invented the Modern Age Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T, the machine that defined twentieth-century America.
Author | : David C. King |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2004-12-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781417673780 |
Download World Wars and the Modern Age Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Provides first-person insight from 1870 to 1950, discussing prohibition, the Great Depression and the Second World War.
Author | : Ernest Freeberg |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0143124447 |
Download The Age of Edison Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Author | : Hans Blumenberg |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1985-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262521055 |
Download The Legitimacy of the Modern Age Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an internal logic that ultimately expresses human choices and is legitimized by human self-assertion, by man's responsibility for his own fate.
Author | : Teresa A. Meade |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118772482 |
Download History of Modern Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Latin America offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the rich cultural and political history of this vibrant region from the onset of independence to the present day. Includes coverage of the recent opening of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba as well as a new chapter exploring economic growth and environmental sustainability Balances accounts of the lives of prominent figures with those of ordinary people from a diverse array of social, racial, and ethnic backgrounds Features first-hand accounts, documents, and excerpts from fiction interspersed throughout the narrative to provide tangible examples of historical ideas Examines gender and its influence on political and economic change and the important role of popular culture, including music, art, sports, and movies, in the formation of Latin American cultural identity Includes all-new study questions and topics for discussion at the end of each chapter, plus comprehensive updates to the suggested readings
Author | : Carl Bode |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download American Perspectives Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Denis William Brogan |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980-03-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313222541 |
Download America in the Modern World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : David E. Brown |
Publisher | : Mit Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780262523493 |
Download Inventing Modern America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Profiles thirty-five inventors whose various innovations changed life in modern America.