The Americas
A Hemispheric History

As I’m apparently the only person in the US that gets slightly offended when the term “American” is used solely to represent us/US gringos (I’ve asked numerous South American friends and oddly they don’t seem to give a crap), I really enjoyed this book. Part of the pleasure comes from the author’s a......more

I picked this up under the assumption that it would be a light, narrative-style pop history of the Americas. Instead I found philosophically-based essays in which the author made strong assumptions about the reader's knowledge base (not all accurate in my case, unfortunately-- not that that's the au......more

I originally came in contact with this book while TAing for a year-long course on the history of "The Americas." As a companion book to the course, this book is useful, as it is short and easy-to-read. However, to read on its own, it just isn't my cup of tea. I kept wondering why he would go on for......more

Comprehensive, informative, thoughtful including narratives beyond common ways of thinking about The Americas. I found it incredibly boring.......more

In a world of specialists, generalists are usually underappreciated and histories of entire continents are a rarity, but fortunately that is starting to change with the decline of narrow nationalistic histories in favour of advances in transnational studies, as well as the current fad of sweeping hi......more