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From food to the spread of political ideas, the landmass from northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina is complexly bound together, yet these connections are usually ignored. Within this groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells, for the very first time, the story of your hemisphere all together, showing why it is impossible to comprehend North, Central, and SOUTH USA in isolation, and looking instead to the intricate and common forces that continue steadily to shape the spot.

With his trademark erudition, imagination, and thematic breadth, Fernández-Armesto ranges over commerce, religion, agriculture, the surroundings, the slave trade, culture, and politics. He takes us from man’s arrival in THE UNITED STATES to the Colonial and Independence periods, to the “American Century” and beyond. For almost all of history, the south dominated the north: as Fernández-Armesto argues in his provocative conclusion, it could well again.

A panoramic yet richly textured story that embodies fresh ways of looking at cross-cultural exchange, conflict, and interaction, The Americas demolishes our traditional ways of looking at the hemisphere, investing in place a compelling and fruitful new vision.

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