by Felipe Fernandez - Armesto (Author)
With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the enlightened first world' United States and Canada, and less privileged Latin America. He shows us why it is impossible to understand the history of North, Central and South America in isolation. From the emergence of the first human civilisations through the arrival of Europeans and up to today, the land mass has been bound together in a complex web of inter-relationships - from migration and trade to religion, slavery, warfare, culture, food and the spread of political ideas. For most of human history, it was the South that dominated the North - and, as he argues in his provocative conclusion, it might well again.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: W&N
Published: 11 Sep 2003
ISBN 10: 1842127136
ISBN 13: 9781842127131
Book Overview: A bestselling writer, whose books have been translated into 22 languages This is the first book to trace the common history of all the Americas Written with the range, opinion, wit and insight that readers have come to expect from this author