The United States of America
from colony to superpower
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With the present bibliographical essay we intend to expose succinctly what road the United States traveled to, in little more than a century and a half, to move from colony to superpower. We have delimited this work chronologically, in such a way that it covers only until the end of the Second World War, date that we estimate marks that beginning as a global superpower. To develop this theme we have commented on four outstanding works that expose in a faithful and rigorous way the evolution at all levels and in all areas of the United States. Four books, in short, written from the academic rigor that addresses a complex object of study and with numerous nuances that dissect without incurring in the abuse of the metalanguage.
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