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Informationen zum Autor Frank Ninkovich is Professor of History at St John's University. He is the author of several books on United States foreign policy! including The Wilsonian Century (1999)! Modernity and Power (1994)! Germany and the United States (updated edition! 1994)! and The Diplomacy of Ideas (1981). Klappentext The United States and Imperialism uses concepts of civilization, identity, the civilizing mission, and cooperation to explain the role of imperialism in American history. The book begins with a survey of the methods and reasons behind America's imperialist drive in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and then outlines the place of imperialism within the broader sweep of modern United States foreign policy. Ninkovich's original analysis of America as an empire shows that imperialism, anti-imperialism, and geopolitics have all played a role in how the United States made decisions about acquiring new territories. Zusammenfassung * Provides survey of the ways in which the United States acquired! administered! and abandoned its various imperial possessions. * Offers a new interpretation of how and why America became an imperialist power. * Incorporates notions of imperialism! anti-imperialism! and geopolitics into American foreign policy decision making. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. 1. Imperialism and National Identity in the 1890s. 2. Failed Expectations: The Civilizing Mission in the Philippines. 3. America's Caribbean Empire. 4. The Modernization of China and the Diplomacy of Imperialism. 5. Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in America's World Policies. Conclusion: Beyond Imperialism: The Empire of Modernity. Index.
