Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
From Montezuma to Monroe
Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-8262-2265-7
Verlag: University of Missouri Press
Nevertheless, the three-century journey to get to this point had been anything but predictable. The United States’ rise as a regional power was very much conditioned by constantly shifting transcontinental, transpacific, and above all transatlantic factors, all of which influenced North America’s three interactive cultural spheres: the Indigenous, the Hispano, and the Anglo. And while the United States profoundly shaped the history of Canada and Mexico, so, too, did these two transcontinental countries likewise shape the course of U.S. history.
In this ground-breaking work, Kevin Fernlund shows us that any society’s social development is directly related to its own social power and, just as crucially, to the protective extension or destructive intrusion of the social power of other societies.