A Nation Forged by Crisis

A Nation Forged by Crisis
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781541617223
ISBN-13 : 1541617223
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Book Synopsis A Nation Forged by Crisis by : Jay Sexton

Download or read book A Nation Forged by Crisis written by Jay Sexton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in the international system. Sexton shows that the American Revolution was a consequence of the increasing integration of the British and American economies; that a necessary precondition for the Civil War was the absence, for the first time in decades, of foreign threats; and that we cannot understand the New Deal without examining the role of European immigrants and their offspring in transforming the Democratic Party. A necessary corrective to conventional narratives of American history, A Nation Forged by Crisis argues that we can only prepare for our unpredictable future by first acknowledging the contingencies of our collective past.


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