Americas in the Modern Age

by Lester D. Langley

Book Overview

In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of the "two Americas" (Theodore Roosevelt's America and the contrasting America described by Cuban revolutionary, essayist, and poet Jos Mart ) and culminating with recent controversial efforts to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300107684
• ISBN13: 9780300107685
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"