Breve historia de Estados Unidos

The United States has always been defined as an exceptional case, a first political experiment that many nations have imitated sooner or later. Its vast surface and the constant and accelerated increase in its population conditioned from the beginning the ways of life of its inhabitants and configured its identity as a demographic colossus and an immigrant country. The creed of freedom, the formula that the Founding Fathers found to provide unity and coherence to the country was, in the long run, successful: the United States is the longest-running democracy on the planet and its concise Constitution is the oldest. The tension between the federal government and the self-government of the states and municipalities, and even the conflict between North and South in the 19th century, have always been overcome in favor of the union, thanks to the agglutination of a strong patriotism. And a marked providentialism: that of a nation chosen to guide the world along the path of American values. This faith, together with its extraordinary power in the 20th century and its influence on the rest of the world, has been and is a magnet for innumerable attractions and rejections. Carlos Sanz has conceived a successful work of synthesis that allows us to approach the history of a diverse country without stereotypes, from the first colonizations to the social changes of recent decades and the recent reconfiguration of the current geopolitical scenario.