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The Cambridge History of America and the World

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 31.07.2025

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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.

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.

Product details

Assisted by Kristin Hoganson (Editor), Sexton Jay (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 31.07.2025
 
EAN 9781108410250
ISBN 978-1-108-41025-0
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises
Series The Cambridge History of America and the World
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas

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