<p><b>''Dazzling. Mind-altering. World-changing. A once-in-a-generation contribution'' </b>NAOMI KLEIN<br><b>''Sweeping and provocative</b>... <b>groundbreaking'' </b>AMITAV GHOSH<br><b>''Will transform your understanding of the modern world'' </b>JONATHAN KENNEDY<br><br><b>From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes the first definitive history of the Western hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both continents.</b><br><br>The story of the United States¿ unique sense of itself was forged facing south ¿ no less than Latin America¿s was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north.<br><br>In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Professor Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from constant, turbulent engagement with each other, shedding new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolom¿e las Casas, Sim¿n Bol¿r and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as
