From food to the spread of political ideas, the landmass from
northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina is complexly bound
together, yet these connections are generally ignored. In this
groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe
Fernandez-Armesto tells, for the first time, the story of our
hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand
North, Central, and South America in isolation, and looking instead
to the intricate and common forces that continue to shape the
region.
With his trademark erudition, imagination, and thematic breadth,
Fernandez-Armesto ranges over commerce, religion, agriculture, the
environment, the slave trade, culture, and politics. He takes us
from man's arrival in North America to the Colonial and
Independence periods, to the "American Century" and beyond. For
most of human history, the south dominated the north: as
Fernandez-Armesto argues in his provocative conclusion, it might
well again.
A panoramic yet richly textured story that embodies fresh ways of
looking at cross-cultural exchange, conflict, and interaction, The
Americas demolishes our traditional ways of looking at the
hemisphere, putting in place a compelling and fruitful new vision.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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