History has begun : the birth of a new America

Maçães, Bruno2020

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We are accustomed to the idea that the arc of American history traces a rising curve throughout the nineteenth century, reaches its apex after the Second World War, and has lately entered a gradual decline. But is this received wisdom true? Civilisations in the past were always measured in much longer periods, and for all its colossal military and economic power, the United States was overshadowed in its first 200 years by Europe's political and cultural influence. What if this isn't the end? What if America is only just getting started? Bruno Macaes offers an alternative view, both unnerving and fascinating, of where America is heading. After discussing the early American Republic, he turns to recent decades and the turbulent present, when, he contends, America will finally forge its own path.