A Nation Without Borders, Steven Hahn
A Nation Without Borders, Steven Hahn
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A Nation Without Borders
The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910

Author: Steven Hahn

Narrator: Barry Press

Unabridged: 27 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2016

Synopsis

In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize—winning historian Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in Mexico and, throughout, is internationalist in orientation. It challenges the political narrative of “sectionalism,” emphasizing the national footing of slavery and the struggle between the northeast and Mississippi Valley for continental supremacy. It places the Civil War in the context of many domestic rebellions against state authority, including those of Native Americans. It fully incorporates the trans-Mississippi west, suggesting the importance of the Pacific to the imperial vision of political leaders and of the west as a proving ground for later imperial projects overseas. It reconfigures the history of capitalism, insisting on the centrality of state formation and slave emancipation to its consolidation. It identifies a sweeping era of “reconstructions” in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that simultaneously laid the foundations for corporate liberalism and social democracy. 
 

About Steven Hahn

Steven Hahn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who studies American political and social movements. His acclaimed works include A Nation Under Our Feet and A Nation Without Borders. He teaches at New York University and lives in New York City and Southold, on Long Island.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on May 23, 2018

A Nation Without Borders is the 3rd book in the Penguin History of the United States. There are five volumes in the series, which offer a comprehensive history of the United States from the colonial period to the 20th century. The series seeks to bring American History in a coherent and accessible f......more

Goodreads review by Leo on June 02, 2020

A NATION WITHOUT BORDERS by Steven Hahn is a well-written history. At first, based on the introduction, I thought the book would follow the path of Howard Zinn and turn American history on its ear. Which made me wary since, despite how much I loved A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, I've recen......more

Goodreads review by Reid tries to read on December 14, 2024

This book covers a massive chunk of U.S. history from 1830 to 1910. During this duration, the population of the United States grew by 10 times, while the country’s boundaries expanded from the Mississippi river all the way to the Pacific coast, and then to the Hawaiian islands within the Pacific its......more

Goodreads review by Ezra on December 31, 2024

This is a good book for learning about many of the very important, yet not well known changes that took place in the U.S. from 1830-1910. These changes are still affecting us today. 1. One aspect was highlighting the pivotal role that escaped enslaved African Americans as well as free African America......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra on February 03, 2024

Everyone who saw me reading this told me it was "important" which made me hate reading it......more

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