This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American history, in which a sense of paradox and irony loom large.

While noting positive achievements-political, economic, social, and cultural-he will also discuss the United States's failures to live up to its oft-statedideals; although America has figu...

Suriname werd in 1975 onafhankelijk. Nog geen vijf jaar later pleegden militairen een staatsgreep. Daarna bepaalden de Decembermoorden, drugshandel, een binnenlandse oorlog en economische teloorgang het beeld van het voormalige Nederlandse rijksdeel. Wat een modeldekolonisatie had moeten worden, was jammerlijk mislukt. In 2010 werd Desi Bouterse, veroordeeld wegens drugsdelicten en hoofdverdachte in het Decembermoordenproces, de democratisch gekozen president van Suriname. De fascinatie van b...

• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction •

Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven "nations" that continue to shape North America

According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, ea...