Although the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago.
Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F. Wehrle explore America's evolving connections with Europe, Africa, and Asia in the three areas that historically have been indicators of global interaction: trade and industry, diplomacy and war, and the -soft- power of ideas and culture. Framed in four chronological eras that mark phases in the long history of globalization, this book considers...
Although the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge o...