| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Blessed among Nations: How the World Made America. By Eric Rauchway. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. 240 pp. $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-5580-7.)

The opening chapter of Blessed among Nations notes how much the United States differed from other industrial and industrializing nations between 1850 and 1920. The book's main theme is that, despite its unique character, the United States benefited extraordinarily from "globalization." Key elements of this globalization phenomenon were, as Eric Rauchway defines it, massive amounts of overseas capital invested in American enterprises and massive numbers of overseas immigrants. Although Americans took enormous pride in their peculiar abilities and achievements, Rauchway argues that imported resources were crucial to making the United States the world's leading industrial nation by 1914.

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