Amerika ve světě Série

This history delves into the complexities of U.S. immigration by situating it within a broader global framework. It examines the intricate interplay between domestic policies and international movements, highlighting how global events and trends have shaped American immigration patterns. The narrative uncovers the diverse motivations of immigrants and the impact of their contributions on American society, offering a nuanced understanding of immigration as a dynamic and multifaceted phenomenon.

Focusing on the transformative decade of the 1970s, the book explores the integration and diversity of the United States and the world. It delves into various aspects, including politics, ideology, economic globalization, and religious fundamentalism, offering a comprehensive and persuasive portrait of the era. The author, Borstelmann, provides valuable insights into how these elements shaped contemporary global dynamics, making the work both informative and engaging.

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, this work offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar often compared to Braudel, transcends conventional Eurocentric and chronological narratives, presenting a truly global history of remarkable scope and depth. He delves into the powerful forces driving global change during the “long nineteenth century,” taking readers from New York to New Delhi, exploring the Latin American revolutions, the Taiping Rebellion, and the dynamics of Europe’s transatlantic labor markets alongside the struggles of nomadic and tribal peoples worldwide. Osterhammel illustrates a world increasingly interconnected by the telegraph, steamship, and railways. He examines the evolving relationship between humanity and nature, the significance of urban centers, and the impact of slavery and its abolition on new nation formations. He challenges the belief that the nation-state triumphed during this time and much more. This English edition of the acclaimed German work, also being translated into several other languages, is essential for historians. It sheds new light on this pivotal epoch, revealing how the nineteenth century set the stage for the global catastrophes of the twentieth while also fostering pacifism, liberalism, trade unions, and other vital developments.

The first history of the new deal in global context The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globe—not just in Europe but also in Latin America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Work creation, agricultural intervention, state planning, immigration policy, the role of mass media, forms of political leadership, and new ways of ruling America's colonies—all had parallels elsewhere and unfolded against a backdrop of intense global debates. By avoiding the distortions of American exceptionalism, Kiran Klaus Patel shows how America's reaction to the Great Depression connected it to the wider world. Among much else, the book explains why the New Deal had enormous repercussions on China; why Franklin D. Roosevelt studied the welfare schemes of Nazi Germany; and why the New Dealers were fascinated by cooperatives in Sweden—but ignored similar schemes in Japan. Ultimately, Patel argues, the New Deal provided the institutional scaffolding for the construction of American global hegemony in the postwar era, making this history essential for understanding both the New Deal and America's rise to global leadership.

Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again.--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.

Describes an early 20th century collaboration between Booker T. Washington, the Tuskegee Institute, and the then German colony of Togo to establish a cotton-growing based region and economy.