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A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History Thomas Bender Hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- America
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780809095278
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0809095270
ISBN-13
9780809095278
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48253557
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nation Among Nations : America's Place in World History
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Globalization, United States / General
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-052808
Reviews
"A sophisticated polemic combining intellectual precision with moral passion, written for a general audience in lively prose that is neither condescending nor arcane. Bender does not pretend to write an exhaustive history of the United States but rather whets our appetite with tastes of his global and spatial revisionism." --Tony Platt, "San Francisco Chronicle""" "Original, ambitious, and consistently provocative, A Nation Among Nations should change the way we study and teach American history. If ever we needed an approach to our past that emphasizes how it is embedded in global history, now is the time." --Eric Foner, Columbia University "Writing with verve and eloquence, Thomas Bender challenges much that we thought we knew in this profoundly disconcerting meditation on American history. His fresh, invigorating interpretations will make your old college textbooks feel obsolete, and he offers a new angle of vision on the ways the twenty-first-century world was shaped. I could not put this book down." --Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa, "Original, ambitious, and consistently provocative, A Nation Among Nations should change the way we study and teach American history. If ever we needed an approach to our past that emphasizes how it is embedded in global history, now is the time." --Eric Foner
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Decimal
973
Synopsis
A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to today Americans like to tell their country's story as if the United States were naturally autonomous and self-sufficient, with characters, ideas, and situations unique to itself. Thomas Bender asks us to rethink this " exceptionalism" and to reconsider the conventional narrative. He proposes that America has grappled with circumstances, doctrines, new developments, and events that other nations, too, have faced, and that we can only benefit from recognizing this. Bender's exciting argument begins with the discovery of the Americas at a time when peoples everywhere first felt the transforming effects of oceanic travel and trade. He then reconsiders our founding Revolution, occurring in an age of rebellion on many continents; the Civil War, happening when many countries were redefining their core beliefs about the nature of freedom and the meaning of nationhood; and the later imperialism that pitted the United States against Germany, Spain, France, and England. Industrialism and urbanization, laissez-faire economics, capitalism and socialism, and new technologies are other factors that Bender views in the light of global developments. "A Nation Among Nations" is a passionate, persuasive book that makes clear what damage is done when we let the old view of America alone in the world falsify our history. Bender boldly challenges us to think beyond our borders.
LC Classification Number
E178.B428 2006
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