Magical. Changing the mind. With a global impact. A contribution that appears every generation.

From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin comes the first definitive history of the Western Hemisphere, an extensive narrative of five centuries of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both continents.

The story of the unique sense of self in the United States was shaped with its gaze turned southward—Latin America was inevitably influenced by the colossal giant to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Professor Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from an alternating and tumultuous interaction between them, shedding new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known players like Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who conspired with Alexander Hamilton for America's liberation from Spain.

America, América spans half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest—the largest mortality event in human history—through the 18th-century wars for independence and the Monroe Doctrine, to the coups and revolutions of the 20th century.

This monumental work of research fundamentally changes our understanding of Spanish and English colonization, slavery and racism, the rise of global humanitarianism, and the role of social democracy in deterring authoritarian impulses.

At once comprehensible and accessible, America, América shows how the United States and Latin America together shaped the laws, institutions, and ideas that govern the modern world. Based on a wealth of sources, and narrated with authority and style, this is a truly new history of the New World.