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This volume examines US empire-building and other aspects of its relationship with the world in the nineteenth century.
List of contents
List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Contributors to Volume II; General Introduction: What is America and the World? Mark Philip Bradley; Introduction to Volume II Jay Sexton and Kristin Hoganson; Part I. Building and Resisting U.S. Empire: 1. The United States between Nation and Empire, 1776-1820 Nicholas Guyatt; 2. Indigenous Nations and the United States Donna L. Akers; 3. Settler Colonialism Jeffrey Ostler; 4. Slavery and Statecraft Robert Bonner; 5. The Mexican-American War Alice L. Baumgartner; 6. Containing Empire: The United States and the World in the Civil War Era Brian Schoen; 7. The United States in an Age of Global Integration, 1865-1897 David Sim; 8. The Wars of 1898 and the US Overseas Empire John Tone; Part II. Imperial Structures: 9. The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783-1900 Max M. Edling; 10. The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819-1919 Eileen P. Scully; 11. The United States and Global Capitalism Dael A. Norwood; 12. Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition Christina Heatherton; 13. The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865-1900 Dirk Bönker; 14. Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century Peter Shulman; 15. The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century Andrew C. Isenberg; Part III. Americans and the World: 16. Foreign Relations Between Indigenous Polities, 1820-1900 Brian DeLay; 17. Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924 Madeline Y. Hsu; 18. The Antislavery International R. J. M. Blackett; 19. American Missionaries in the World Emily Conroy-Krutz; 20. Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism Brian Rouleau; 21. Colonial Intimacies in US Empire Tessa Marie Winkelmann; 22. Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World Daniel Bender; Part IV. Americans in the World: 23. The Changing Geography of Mobility, 1820-1940 Donna R. Gabaccia; 24. The United States and the Greater Caribbean, 1763-1898 Luis Martínez Fernández; 25. Borderlands and Border Crossings Sam Truett; 26. The Liberal North Atlantic Leslie Butler; 27. 'To Enter America from Africa and Africa from America' during the Nineteenth Century Jeannette Eileen Jones; 28. Islamic World Encounters Karine V. Walther; 29. The American Island Empire: US Expansionism in the Pacific and the Caribbean JoAnna Poblete; 30. Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization Ian Tyrrell; Index.
About the author
Kristin Hoganson is the Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of several previous books, including Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (2000); Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity 1865-1920 (2007); The Heartland: An American History (2019); and co-editor (with Jay Sexton) of Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain (2020).Jay Sexton is the Kinder Institute Chair of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873 (2005); The Monroe Doctrine: Nation and Empire in Nineteenth-Century America (2011); A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History (2019); as well as several collaborative volumes that probe global dimensions of American history including (with Kristin Hoganson) Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain (2020).
Summary
This volume examines how the United States became an imperial power in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world shaped the United States in this pivotal era. It places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their peoples in the context of a rapidly integrating world.
