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The rules-based order, international law, state sovereignty, the belief in universal equality: all of this, says Greg Grandin, was not conceived in Western Europe and the United States butin Latin America. With America, América: A New History of the New World, the historian draws a line from the Spanish Conquista through the founding of the United Nations into our present. He reframes the continent, not as a victim of Western modernity but as its decisive architect. Grandin, born in 1962,…