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What is America? a short history of the new world order
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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Following his international bestseller, A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright provokes once again, as he explores the oldest American myth: the endless frontier
Details
- Creator
- Ronald Wright
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- [Cambridge, MA] : Da Capo Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780786726066, 0786726067, 0786720972
- OCLC
- ocn798535041
- "Reprinted by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf Canada".
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-349) and index.
- English
- Contents; Author's Foreword - 1; 1 . The New World Order - 9; 2. Loot, Labour and Land - 19; 3. Very Well Peopled and Towned - 47; 4. Religion and Profit Jump Together - 61; 5. White Savages - 95; 6. Manifest Destiny - 133; 7 . A Sort of Empire - 169; 8. The Winds of Fear - 191; 9. The World's Best Hope - 217; Notes - 227; Bibliography - 329; Acknowledgments - 351; Index - 353