Bibliograph

American empire, a global history, A.G. Hopkins

Type

Label

American empire, a global history, A.G. Hopkins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American empire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

A.G. Hopkins

Series statement

America in the world

Sub title

a global history

Summary

"Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to [posit that], 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"--Dust jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Prologue. Lessons of liberation : Iraq, 1915-1921 -- Three crises and an outcome -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. Modernity and imperialism, 1865-1914. Uneven development and imperial expansion -- Achieving effective independence -- Acquiring an unexceptional empire -- Insular perspectives on an intrusive world -- Intermission : Tarzan's mirror to modernity -- Part III. 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" -- Part IV. The outcome : postcolonial globalization. Dominance and decline in the postcolonial age -- Epilogue. Lessons of liberation : Iraq, 2003-2011

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