Laid Waste!: The Culture of Exploitation in Early America

by John Lauritz Larson

After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812251849
• ISBN13: 9780812251845
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"