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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hopkins, A. G. (Antony G.) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018.
Series:America in the world.
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Globalization > Political aspects
Territorial expansion
United States > Territories and possessions > History.
États-Unis > Territoires et possessions > Histoire.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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