The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World
examines how the United States rose to great power status in the
nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the
United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider
and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military,
environmental, legal, technological, and other veins of analysis,
it places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their peoples
in the context of a rapidly integrating world. Specific topics
addressed in the volume include nation and empire building,
inter-Indigenous relations, settler colonialism, slavery and
statecraft, the Mexican-American War, global integration, the
antislavery international, the global dimensions of the Civil War,
overseas empire-building, state formation, international law,
global capitalism, border-crossing movement politics, technology,
health, the environment, immigration policy, missionary endeavors,
mobility, tourism, expatriation, cultural production, colonial
intimacies, borderlands, the liberal North Atlantic, US-African
relations, Islamic world encounters, the US island empire, the
greater Caribbean world, and transimperial entanglements.
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