America, América a new history of the New World
"The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates, the nation's unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south--no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to t...
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Penguin Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: On the utilities of magpies
- Part I: To begin in wonder: the Spanish. Leaves of grass ; These is only one world ; Ego vox ; Goodbye Aristotle ; New laws ; Bartolomé's many ghosts
- Part II: Empty houses: the English. Empty houses ; Irish tactics ; Lost in the world's debate ; The western design ; Opening the Mexican fountain
- Part III: American revolutions. Three kings ; Come the crows ; Grand strategies ; The ambiguity in which we live ; War to the death
- Part IV: Union/desunión. A kind of international law for America ; The balancing power: Monroe's doctrine ; As you possess ; This American party ; Sister nations ; Torments
- Part V: Young Americans. The march of God ; Two Americas ; Lincoln belongs to us ; Twilight ; America for humanity ; Tar wars
- Part VI: Toward a world doctrine. Mexico's revolution ; Wilson's dilemma ; Monroe Doctrine of the future ; Subsoil socialism ; Bolívar dreamt ; Death and the salesmen
- Part VII: Laboratory of the world. To Montevideo ; The so-called right of conquest ; Hell bent for reelection ; The faith of the Americas ; Battle for Latin America ; A people's war ; There would have been nothing
- Part VIII: The killing of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Underdeveloped economists ; A chapter on Latin America ; The killing of Gaitán ; A red masterpiece ; Peace, peace, don't kill us ; The perpetual rhythm of struggle ; War of of the gods, or, A second enlightenment ; Restoring the magisterium
- Epilogue: America, América
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Illustration credits
- Index.
