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It's finally summer and Amber Brown is going to London to visit her aunt Pam and then to Paris to visit with her father. She is one excited kid before she goes. And one itchy kid when she arrives. Mosquito bites, she thinks. Chicken pox, she finds out. Is her vacation completely ruined? And now that she can't go to Paris, how will she be able to convince her dad to move back home?

America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest—the greatest mortality event in human history—through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond. Grandin shows, among other things, how in response to U.S. interventions, Latin Americans remade the rules, leading directly to the founding of the United Nations; and how the Good Neighbor Policy allowed FDR to assume the moral authority to lead the fight against world fascism.

El descubrimiento de América en 1492 fue un hecho extraordinario que significó el inicio de una nueva etapa histórica: la Edad Moderna. Un nuevo continente se abrió primero a los descubridores, a los que siguieron los denominados «conquistadores». Pequeños grupos de hombres iniciaron una serie de exploraciones y conquistas de carácter épico y recorrieron el continente de norte a sur, proyectando el poder hispano desde California hasta la Patagonia.