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USA by Hans J. Aubert - Ulf Müller-Moewes / United States in Text and Photograpy / Text und Fotografie / Bruckmann München / German language Travel album

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USA by Hans J. Aubert - Ulf Müller-Moewes / United States in Text and Photograpy / Text und Fotografie / Bruckmann München / German language Travel album

Hardcover 1987

ISBN: 9783765421372  /   978-3765421372

ISBN-10: 3765421375

PAGES: 208

PUBLISHER: Bruckmann München

LANGUAGE: German / Deutsch 

 

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German Description:

Amerika, das >Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten<, ein großes, ein vielgestaltiges, ein reiches Land, aber auch ein Land der extremen Kontraste. Alles in allem ein Land der Superlative: Zwischen Arktis und Karibik, zwischen Atlantik und Pazifik zeigt dieser Kontinent die ganze Vielfalt seiner geologischen Formationen, den ganzen Reichtum seiner Tier- und Pflanzenwelt. Kaum eine ethnische Gruppe, die hier nicht vertreten wäre. Daß dieses Völkergemisch nicht ganz unproblematisch sein kann – man denke an die Indianer oder die farbige Bevölkerung -, sei in diesem Zusammenhang nur am Rande gestreift. Dabei sind die Vereinigten Staaten eine vergleichsweise junge Nation. Vor rund 200 Jahren erst lösten sich die Kolonien vom britischen Mutterland und erklärten ihre Unabhängigkeit – der unaufhaltsame Aufstieg zur politisch und wirtschaftlich mächtigsten Nation der Welt begann. Aus dem Kulturellen Erbe Europas entwickelte Amerika im 20.Jahrhundert eine eigenständige neue Kunst, die ihrerseits wiederum befruchtend auf die Alte Welt zurückwirkte. Auch deshalb ist uns Amerika nahegerückt.

 

English Summary:

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (US, standard American usage U.S.) or America, is a country mostly located in central North America, between Canada and Mexico. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[h] At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square kilometers), it is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area.[d] With a population of over 328 million, it is the third most populous country in the world. The country's capital is Washington, D.C., and its most populous city is New York City.

Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago, and European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast. Disputes with Great Britain led to the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which established independence. In the late 18th century, the U.S. began vigorously expanding across North America, gradually acquiring new territories, oftentimes conquering and displacing Native Americans, and admitting new states; by 1848, the United States spanned the continent. Slavery was legal in the southern United States until the second half of the 19th century, when the American Civil War led to its abolition. The Spanish–American War and World War I established the U.S. as a world power, a status confirmed by the outcome of World War II. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in various proxy wars, but avoided direct military conflict. They also competed in the Space Race, culminating in the 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. The Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 ended the Cold War and left the United States as the world's sole superpower.

 

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