Nolan’s book is a chronologically themed investigation that focuses on those critical transatlantic …show more content…
While it is difficult to pen a twelve page review of Norton’s text in a few pages or less, at the heart of her argument is the notion that while Europe and its nation-states influenced the world in the nineteenth-century, the twenty-first century gave rise to American influence, ideals, culture, economics and military prowess. Nevertheless questions loom as to if at the end of this grand birth of the “American Century”, can America retain, and remain relevant in its position, and continue to foster critical transatlantic relationships in the next