"An original, ambitious, and consistently provocative book that
should change the way we study and teach American history." --Eric
Foner, Columbia University In this major book, Thomas Bender
recasts the developments central to American history by setting
them in a global context, and showing both the importance and
ordinariness of America's international entanglements over five
centuries.
Bender focuses on five major themes, beginning with 1492 and "the
age of discovery," when people everywhere first felt the
transforming effects of oceanic trade. He asks us to see our
Revolution as one of several similar rebellions around the globe,
and the Civil War as part of a larger history associating the new
meaning of nationhood with freedom. He also examines the American
commitment to empire from Jefferson's presidency to our own time,
and makes it clear that America's responses to capitalist
industrialization and urbanization were part of a worldwide
conversation.
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