American Empire : A Global History /
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...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Lessons of liberation
- Three crises and an outcome
- Decolonization and Dependence, 1756-1865. The advance and retreat of the military-fiscal state
- From revolution to constitution
- The struggle for independence
- Wars of incorporation
- Modernity and Imperialism, 1865-1914. Uneven development and imperial expansion
- Achieving effective independence
- Acquiring an unexceptional empire
- Insular perspectives on an instrusive world
- Empires and International Disorder, 1914-1959. The modern Imperial system : from conquest to collapse
- Ruling the forgotten empire
- Caribbean carnival
- Paradise in the Pacific
- "The twilight of confused colonialism"
- The Outcome : Postcolonial Globalization. Dominance and decline in the Postcolonial Age
- Epilogue: Lessons of liberation : Iraq, 2003-2011.