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A Big History of North America : From Montezuma to Monroe /
"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. B...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
The University of Missouri Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A Big History of North America : |b From Montezuma to Monroe / |c Kevin Jon Fernlund. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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