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Metropolitan Books Greg Grandin A FLEECE OF CELESTIAL INNOCENCE and GREATER AMERICA: Five Exceptional Centuries Publication: October 2013, October 2014 Manuscript available: January 2013, January 2014 Editor: Sara Bershtel In A FLEECE OF CELESTIAL INNOCENCE, Greg Grandin, National Book Award Finalist for Fordlandia, narrates the true events of an 1804 slave ship revolt off the coast of remote southern Chile which inspired Herman Melville’s acclaimed Benito Cereno and influenced Moby Dick. The slave uprising on the Spanish schooner the Trial was similar to many such insurrections of the time, like the well-known Amistad rebellion. At three in the morning, a week after setting sail from Valparaiso and two days after Christmas, the ship’s slaves rose up, seized command, and killed most of the Spaniards, including their owner, Alejandro Amanda. They spared Benito Cerreño, after he promised to return the mainly Muslim slaves to Senegal. For forty days they skulked along the coast of Chile seeking water and hiding from passing ships. Yet they were eventually spotted by an American ship captained by Amasa Delano. He boarded the Trial and questioned the crew. All seemed normal. The slaves acted as if they were still loyal to Cerreño and so Amasa left. Grandin’s second book, GREATER AMERICA, is an important history of the Americas that will be a serious study the likes we’ve not yet seen. It will provide the sweeping story of the Western Hemisphere from European conquest, settlement, and frontier violence, through commerce and industry, slavery and abolition, revolution and wars, to the dawn of the twentyfirst century. It aims to do for America what Tony Judt did for Europe in his masterful Postwar, which joined East and West together in a powerful narrative that changed the way we thought about the continent. By focusing on America in sum, this book will provide a new, fresh interpretation of its parts: the United States and Latin America. Running through the narrative will be a strong, wholly original conceptual argument. In Empire’s Workshop, Grandin focused on Latin America’s role as a training ground for US imperial tactics and strategies in the twentieth century. GREATER AMERICA will make a more exciting claim, arguing that centuries of conquest, slavery, frontier bloodshed, war, and diplomacy not only helped shape the political identities of the United States and Latin America but forged the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world. British: Henry Holt Translation: Henry Holt
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