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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... 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 and Georgia coasts during the eighteenth century. Ships hauled ...
... Africa. Oyo slave dealers sold Africans captured in war and raids to North American buyers through Gold Coast ports such as Lagos and Porto Novo. Scottish and ScottishIrish migration The British colonies in North America participated in ...
... America sustained a regular flow of personal and business information that informed both loved ones and business associates about affairs in Virginia and other locations where Scots conducted their commercial activities. African ...
... African because of high mortality, the planters' preference for young men and the consequent inability to reproduce children. In contrast, the British settlements in North America drew substantially smaller numbers of slaves direct from ...
... African labor in the Caribbean, and shipped north on Rhode Island cargo ships. For the North American elites, these houses also served as important signs of refinement and gentility, characteristics of the Better Sort. They also ...