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845122
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Hopkins, A. G., (Antony G.)
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American empire : : a global history /\ A.G. Hopkins.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton :: Princeton University Press,, 2018.
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America in the world
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1 online resource
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1400888352
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: 9781400888351
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0691177058
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9780691177052
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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 739-932) and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Preface; PROLOGUE Lessons of Liberation: Iraq, 1915â#x80;#x93;1921; CHAPTER 1 Three Crises and an Outcome; The Choice among Alternatives; Beyond â#x80;#x9C;The National Ideology of American Exceptionalismâ#x80;#x9D;; Empire: â#x80;#x9C;A Rose by Any Other Name . . .â#x80;#x9D;?; Globalization and Empires; Time and Motion; â#x80;#x9C;The Growing Labours of the Lengthenâ#x80;#x99;d Wayâ#x80;#x9D;; PART I DECOLONIZATION AND DEPENDENCE, 1756â#x80;#x93;1865; CHAPTER 2 The Advance and Retreat of the Military-Fiscal State; Cause and Chronology; A Great Convergence?
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Â#x80;#x9C;An Irrepressible Conflict between Opposing and Enduring Forcesâ#x80;#x9D;â#x80;#x9C;For Godâ#x80;#x99;s Sake, Let Us If Possible Keep Out Of Itâ#x80;#x9D;; War and Peace Revisited; PART II MODERNITY AND IMPERIALISM, 1865â#x80;#x93;1914; CHAPTER 6 Uneven Development and Imperial Expansion; â#x80;#x9C;The Earth, Restive, Confronts a New Eraâ#x80;#x9D;; â#x80;#x9C;Via Pecuniaâ#x80;#x9D;: The Road to Modern Globalization; â#x80;#x9C;O, My Brothers, Love Your Countryâ#x80;#x9D;; The Great Deflation; Globalization and â#x80;#x9C;Newâ#x80;#x9D; Imperialism; Lions, Jackals, and the Scramble for Empire; â#x80;#x9C;This Is a New Age; The Age of Social Advancement Not of Feudal Sportsâ#x80;#x9D.
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Â#x80;#x9C;Spectacles of Turbulence and Contentionâ#x80;#x9D;â#x80;#x9C;Not an Empire, but the Project of an Empireâ#x80;#x9D;; CHAPTER 4 The Struggle for Independence; Midnightâ#x80;#x99;s Children; The Rhetoric and the Reality of Revolution; Dilemmas of Dependent Development; Cultural Continuities; â#x80;#x9C;Converting the Forests of a Wilderness into the Favourite Mansion of Libertyâ#x80;#x9D;; CHAPTER 5 Wars of Incorporation; â#x80;#x9C;The Great Nation of Futurityâ#x80;#x9D;; â#x80;#x9C;The Bright Idea of Property, of Exclusive Rightâ#x80;#x9D;; 1812: The Second War of Independence?; â#x80;#x9C;America Knows How to Crush as Well as How to Expandâ#x80;#x9D.
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Â#x80;#x9C;We Come as Ministering Angels, Not as Despotsâ#x80;#x9D.
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CHAPTER 7 Achieving Effective Independenceâ#x80;#x9C;In the Midst of Confusion and Distressâ#x80;#x9D;; â#x80;#x9C;All Has Been Lost, Except Office or the Hope of Itâ#x80;#x9D;; â#x80;#x9C;Beautiful Credit! The Foundation of Modern Societyâ#x80;#x9D;; The Culture of Cosmopolitan Nationalism; From â#x80;#x9C;Unionâ#x80;#x9D; to â#x80;#x9C;Americaâ#x80;#x9D;; CHAPTER 8 Acquiring an Unexceptional Empire; â#x80;#x9C;Our World Opportunity, World Duty, and World Gloryâ#x80;#x9D;; The Battle Over the Wars of 1898; Don Quixoteâ#x80;#x99;s Last Ride; Mobilizing the Means of Destruction; â#x80;#x9C;The Irresistible Tendency to Expansion ... Seems Again in Operationâ#x80;#x9D.
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The Glorious Revolution, and the Exceptional Military-Fiscal StateThe Evolution of Britainâ#x80;#x99;s Military-Fiscal State; The New Global Order; War, Reconstruction, and Reform; Britain: â#x80;#x9C;The Union of Permanence and Changeâ#x80;#x9D;; â#x80;#x9C;A Vast Empire on Which the Sun Never Setsâ#x80;#x9D;; â#x80;#x9C;The Image of the Past Projected on the Mist of the Unknownâ#x80;#x9D;; CHAPTER 3 From Revolution to Constitution; Harry Washington and the Emerging Global Order; Toward â#x80;#x9C;The New Colony-Systemâ#x80;#x9D;; John Company at Work; A Revolution of Declining Expectations; â#x80;#x9C;An Indissoluble Union of the States under One Federal Headâ#x80;#x9D.
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| Abstract
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A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A.G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, the United States and Western Europe followed similar trajectories throughout this long period, and how America's dependency on Britain and Europe extended much later into the nineteenth century than previously understood. In a sweeping narrative spanning three centuries, Hopkins describes how the revolt of the mainland colonies was the product of a crisis that afflicted the imperial states of Europe generally, and how the history of the American republic between 1783 and 1865 was a response not to the termination of British influence but to its continued expansion. He traces how the creation of a U.S. industrial nation-state after the Civil War paralleled developments in Western Europe, fostered similar destabilizing influences, and found an outlet in imperialism through the acquisition of an insular empire in the Caribbean and Pacific. The period of colonial rule that followed reflected the history of the European empires in its ideological justifications, economic relations, and administrative principles. After 1945, a profound shift in the character of globalization brought the age of the great territorial empires to an end. American Empire goes beyond the myth of American exceptionalism to place the United States within the wider context of the global historical forces that shaped the Western empires and the world.
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HISTORY / Europe / General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Emigration Immigration.
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United States, Territories and possessions, History.
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| Dewey Classification
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325/.341
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JV1011
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