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“Greg Grandin's argument is compelling and written with zest. His history is punchy, the array of sources is vast, and the narrative pace is superb.” —Financial Times
“An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez.” —Irish Times
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both
In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Grandin reveals how the United States and Latin America were forged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other. America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest—the greatest mortality event in human history—through the eighteenth-century wars for independence; the Monroe Doctrine; the world wars, coups, and revolutions of the twentieth century and beyond.
Grandin’s book sheds new light on well-known historical figures such as Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as lesser-known actors such as Jorge Gaitán, whose unsolved murder inaugurated the rise of cold war political terror. At once comprehensive and accessible, this monumental work of scholarship shows that centuries of bloodshed and diplomacy not only helped shape the political identities of the Western Hemisphere but also the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world.
A culmination of a decades-long engagement with hemispheric history, drawing on a vast array of sources, and told with authority and flair, this is a genuinely new history of the New World.
“Greg Grandin's argument is compelling and written with zest. His history is punchy, the array of sources is vast, and the narrative pace is superb.” —Financial Times
“An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez.” —Irish Times
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both
In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Grandin reveals how the United States and Latin America were forged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other. America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest—the greatest mortality event in human history—through the eighteenth-century wars for independence; the Monroe Doctrine; the world wars, coups, and revolutions of the twentieth century and beyond.
Grandin’s book sheds new light on well-known historical figures such as Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as lesser-known actors such as Jorge Gaitán, whose unsolved murder inaugurated the rise of cold war political terror. At once comprehensive and accessible, this monumental work of scholarship shows that centuries of bloodshed and diplomacy not only helped shape the political identities of the Western Hemisphere but also the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world.
A culmination of a decades-long engagement with hemispheric history, drawing on a vast array of sources, and told with authority and flair, this is a genuinely new history of the New World.
Introduction: On the Utility of Magpies xix
PART I
TO BEGIN IN WONDER:
THE SPANISH
1. Leaves of Grass 3
2. There Is Only One World 12
3. Ego Vox 20
4. Goodbye Aristotle 29
5. New Laws 41
6. Bartolomé’s Many Ghosts 53
PART II
EMPTY HOUSES:
THE ENGLISH
7. Empty Houses 69
8. Irish Tactics 81
9. Lost in the World’s Debate 94
10. The Western Design 106
11. Opening the Mexican Fountain 120
PART III
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS
12. Three Kings 131
13. Come the Crows 145
14. Grand Strategies 156
15. The Ambiguity in Which We Live 168
16. War to the Death 184
PART I V
UNION/ DESUNIÓN
17. A Kind of International Law for America 201
18. The Balancing Power: Monroe’s Doctrine 215
19. As You Possess 224
20. This American Party 233
21. Sister Nations 242
22. Torments 252
PART V
YOUNG AMERICANS
23. The March of God 265
24. Two Americas 281
25. Lincoln Belongs to Us 292
26. Twilight 303
27. America for Humanity 317
28. Tar Wars 330
PART V I
TOWARD A WORLD DOCTRINE
29. Mexico’s Revolution 345
30. Wilson’s Dilemma 359
31. Monroe Doctrine of the Future 375
32. Subsoil Socialism 382
33. Bolívar Dreamt 390
34. Death and the Salesmen 401
PART V II
LABORATORY OF
THE WORLD
35. To Montevideo 417
36. The So‑ Called Right of Conquest 430
37. Hell Bent for Reelection 438
38. The Faith of the Americas 450
39. Laboratory of the World 461
40. Battle for Latin America 476
41. A People’s War 489
42. There Would Have Been Nothing 503
PART V III
THE K ILLING OF
JORGE ELIÉCER GAITÁN
43. Underdeveloped Economists 515
44. A Chapter on Latin America 526
45. The Killing of Gaitán 536
46. A Red Masterpiece 552
47. Peace, Peace, Don’t Kill Us 562
48. The Perpetual Rhythm of Struggle 571
49. War of the Gods, or,
A Second Enlightenment 581
50. Restoring the Magisterium 597
Epilogue
America, América 617
Acknowledgments 631
Notes 633
Illustration Credits 715
Index 717
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: |
XXX
738 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780593831274 |
| ISBN-10: | 0593831276 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Grandin, Greg |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Maße: | 213 x 138 x 45 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Greg Grandin |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.04.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,622 kg |
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