Greg Grandin
America, América. A New History of the New World
Vortrag und Gespräch mit Susan Neiman
This talk will focus on the throughline argument of my new book, America, América, making the case that the Conquest of the New World, and the ideological struggles between first empires and then between the United States and Latin American republic gave rise to the norms and institutions associated with today’s beleaguered liberal internationalism, what some refer to as the “rules-based order.” Most historians of, say, the League of Nations or the United Nations, tend to focus on transatlantic intellectual currents, on inter-imperial rivalry, decolonization, world wars, and the rise of the United States. America, América instead argues that to appreciate of the full arc of Conquest, the Age of Conquest, the end of the Doctrine of Conquest, and now the revival of Conquest one must look directly at ideological rivalry that took place in the New World over the course of five centuries.
Greg Grandin is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (2019), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the prize in History. Other books include Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic, first published in 2005 and expanded in 2021, and Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman (2015). He is also the author of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (2014), which won the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes in American History. He has written for various journals, including The Nation, The Guardian, The New York Times, Harper’s, The London Review of Books, Jacobin, The Boston Review, and The Intercept. His most recent book, America, América: A New History of the New World won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and was a finalist for the Cundill Prize, the Kirkus Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Eine Kooperation mit dem Ibero-Amerikanischen Institut