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For a thousand years the dense rainforests of Central America concealed the ruins of one of the world's great civilizations, that of the ancient Maya. Behind these ancient cities and their abandoned artworks lie the turbulent stories of their ruling dynasties.
David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades--from the close of the Seven Years War through the Loui…