{"product_id":"american-empire-in-global-history-9781032186696","title":"American Empire in Global History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows how the predominantly national focus that characterises studies of the United States after 1783 can be integrated with global trends, as viewed from the perspective of imperial history. The book also argues that historians of European empires have much to gain by considering the United States after 1783 as a newly-decolonised country that acquired overseas territorial possessions in 1898 and remained a member of the Western imperial club' until the mid-twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wide-ranging synthesis by A. G. Hopkins, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Empire: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), provides the starting point for contributions that appraise its main theme and take it in new directions. The first three chapters identify\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003efresh approaches to U.S. history between the Revolution and the Civil War, suggesting ways in which the United States can be considered as a newly-decolonised country, examining shifting meanings of the term empire,' and reassessing the character of continen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Introduction \u003c\/strong\u003e1. American Empire in Global History \u003cb\u003ePart 2: The American Revolution and The Post-Colonial Order \u003c\/b\u003e2. Imperial Confusion: America’s Post-colonial and Post-revolutionary Empire 3. United States Expansion and Incorporation in the Long Nineteenth-Century 4. The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins's American Empire \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Insular Perspectives on Empire \u003c\/b\u003e5. Cuba: Context and Consequences for the American Empire 6. The Road to 1898: On American Empire and the Philippine Revolution 7. Restoring Asia to the Global Moment of 1898 \u003cb\u003ePart 4: The Empire in the Twentieth Century \u003c\/b\u003e8. Law Against Empire, or Law for Empire? – American Imagination and the International Legal Order in the Twentieth Century 9. Informal Empire and the Cold War \u003cb\u003ePart 5: Response \u003c\/b\u003e10. Imperial Puzzles\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084466549079,"sku":"9781032186696","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-empire-in-global-history-9781032186696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}