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A Big History of North America : From Montezuma to Monroe
Author
Title
A Big History of North America : From Montezuma to Monroe / Kevin Jon Fernlund.
ISBN
9780826274779
9780826222749
9780826222657
Publication
Columbia : The University of Missouri Press, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"This book looks at America's initial rise to power and considers what made its relatively short path to hemispheric dominance possible. However, it does so within a continental context, and therefore begins with the conquest of the Aztec Empire of Mexico by Spain's Hernando Cortes. But unlike a typical history survey, this book tracks and measures over time the sources of social power - the abilities of a particular society "to get things done," in the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris's apt formulation, including the projection of military force. And it has tried to do so by placing America's rise in a continental as well as a transatlantic context"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
On method
On asymmetry
The Renaissance explores the East Coast
The Enlightenment explores the West Coast
A short history of cultural evolution
The two Mexicos
Mexico's axial age
The two Spains
Neo-Europes and middle grounds
Transatlantic wars and transcontinental treks
The Thucydides trap
and the great escape
The clinched fist and the invisible hand.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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