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The Americas: A Hemispheric History Audiobook
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Felipe FernAndez-Armesto is a world-renowned scholar, professor of history and geography at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Faculty of Modern History of Oxford University. The Americas, part of the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles series, offers an intriguing history of the world's western hemisphere.
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“The writing is sprightly and erudite, not overly concerned with explaining established historical theories…The author’s final urging of a mutually respectful, balanced hemisphere justifies the book’s fast-paced journey through time in consideration of our shared history.”
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About Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a bestselling author and internationally respected historian. His books include Millennium: A History of our Last Thousand Years, Truth: A History, and Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature. He is a professor of history at Queen Mary and Westfield University.
About Paul Hecht
Paul Hecht’s long career in audiobooks spans dozens of titles and authors as varied as Ray Bradbury and Gore Vidal, Jack Finney and Thomas Mann. He has recorded such books as Bob Dole’s One Soldier’s Story and Alexander McCall Smith’s Portuguese Irregular Verbs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances. Hecht’s theater career in New York includes many Broadway and television credits. He has won nine AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook narrations.