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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... North American colonies for food and white-collar services and on Great Britain for investments, plantation managers and naval protection. The islands could have existed in no other way once they committed to sugar as their main export ...
... North American colonies sustained the capture and movement of human beings from Africa to the western Atlantic for sale. The demand for slaves also had indirect consequences for polities in West Africa. The Dahomean, Oyo and Ashanti states ...
Edward J. Davies, II. for the British colonies in North America in the 1760s and 1770s. Many boarded ships that had just unloaded flax seed from the North American colonies, necessary to sustain the linen industry lodged chiefly in ...
... colonies. These communication links that span the Atlantic facilitated migration and gave direction to those migrants once they landed in North America. They also transferred news about the migrants and their experiences to their family ...
... colonies in North America and the Caribbean. Below the true nobility in rank came the gentry, with fewer resources and less prestige. Still ... North American colonies established The Pan-British world in the eighteenth century 11.
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3 The PanBritish world in the age of revolution | 21 |
4 Industrialization and the remaking of the world 17501900 | 41 |
5 The global rise of corporations | 59 |
6 Raw materials and sustaining the global economy | 77 |
7 The United States and Atlantic migration | 96 |
8 The United States and Latin America | 111 |
9 The United States and the Pacific | 126 |
10 The United States and the world 19452005 | 136 |
Toward the future | 156 |
Conclusion | 158 |
Index | 163 |