American History

NATION OF NATIONS

through which to view nations’ growth and changing values over the centuries. University of Nebraska professor Thomas Borstelmann has come up with a viewpoint both off-beat and rewarding: the shifting American definition of and attitude toward the “foreign.” does not recount patterns of changing

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