The United States in World HistoryIn 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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... international dimensions the impact of industrialization on U.S. trade and the emergence of the 'corporation' in the nineteenth century the expansion of U.S. consumer and cultural industries from the early twentieth century the Cold ...
The Cold War with the late Soviet Union signaled this new capacity, one that technology helped sustain and then expanded as the century came to close. United States corporations, including services companies such as McDonald's, ...
As her fleets and merchants expanded so did London, where 25 percent of its large and evergrowing population ... expanding markets in North America and across the Atlantic where colonial merchants conducted so much of their business.
By the 1750s it enjoyed a legion of buyers in the expanding markets of urban consumers in Europe and especially in France, the largest buyer of North American tobacco. Europeans preferred the scent of tobacco in snuff.
expanding the amount of land under cultivation and bringing more African Americans to be slave laborers on their plantations. Rice, too, depended on water transport for its vitality. Rice emerged as a central export along the Carolina ...