The United States in World HistoryRoutledge, 27. sep. 2006 - 192 síður In this concise, accessible introductory survey of the history of the United States from 1790 to the present day, Edward J. Davies examines key themes in the evolution of America from colonial rule to international supremacy. Focusing particularly on those currents within US history that have influenced the rest of the world, the book is neatly divided into three parts which examine the Atlantic world, 1700–1800, the US and the industrial world, and the emergence of America as a global power. The United States in World History explores such key issues as:
Part of our successful Themes in World History series, The United States in World History presents a new way of examining the United States, and reveals how concepts that originated in America's definition of itself as a nation – concepts such as capitalism, republicanism and race – have had supranational impact across the world. |
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... London and its fashionable style and behavior for their inspiration. They participated in a transatlantic literary culture anchored by the London publishing industry and the fashionable reading tastes of the city's upper strata. As part ...
... London as early as the 1650s. Known as the Navigation Acts, these measures regulated the commercial world that determined so much of the material life in the British settlements in North America. Colonial merchants also depended on the ...
... London, Glasgow, Liverpool and Bristol and took out finished products for colonial markets. The ports in Britain's Northern American settlements stood as conduits that brought in the goods, services and personnel from the Atlantic world ...
... London, which stood at the center of the British Atlantic world. Straddling the River Thames, London housed extensive shipyards, numerable wet and dry docks, customs houses, and one of the largest communities of seamen and maritime ...
... London to support the slave trade. Financial figures in the British capital provided the resources that held together the slaving enterprise so central in the economic life of planters in the western Atlantic. These lenders generously ...