The Americas

Download or read book The Americas written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In THE AMERICAS, Fernadez-Armesto connects all the dots, explaining the astounding interconnectedness of this vast land mass, and demonstrating that the dominance of North over South is a very recent development in the scheme of things and by no means foreordained. Europeans first conceived of the hemisphere as a singl America, a single New World, and Armesto brings us full circle. He emphasizes the connectiosn and cross-pollinations - in trade, religion, agriculture, environmental factors, migration (including most importantly, the slave trade) and political ideas - that have bound the hemisphere over its history, from the earliest humans, through the colonial era, to the present.