While the twenty-first century may well be the age of
globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually
been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed
here five centuries ago.
Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F. Wehrle explore America's
evolving connections with Europe, Africa, and Asia in the three
areas that historically have been the indicators of global
interaction: trade and industry, diplomacy and war, and the "soft"
power of ideas and culture. Framed in four chronological eras that
mark phases in the long history of globalization, this book
considers the impact of international events and trends on the
American story as well as the influence America has exerted on
world developments. Peskin and Wehrle discuss how the nature of
this influence--whether economic, cultural, or military--fluctuated
in each period. They demonstrate how technology and disease enabled
Europeans to subjugate the New World as well as how
colonial-American products transformed Europe and Africa and how
post-revolutionary American ideas helped foment revolutions in
Europe and elsewhere. Next, the authors explore the American rise
to global economic and military superpower--and how the accumulated
might of the United States alienated many people around the world
and bred dissent at home. During the civil rights movement, America
borrowed much from the world as it sought to address the crippling
"social questions" of the day at the same time that
Americans--especially African Americans--offered a global model for
change as the country strove to address social, racial, and gender
inequality.
Lively and accessible, "America and the World" draws on the most
recent scholarship to provide a historical introduction to one of
today's vital and misunderstood issues.
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