Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be
something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to
liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and
influence. Yet from the beginning, Native powers, free and enslaved
Black people, and foreign subjects perceived, interacted with, and
resisted the young republic as if it was merely another empire
under the sun. Such perspectives have driven scholars to reevaluate
the early United States, as the parameters of early American
history have expanded in Atlantic, continental, and global
directions. If the nation’s acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and
the Philippine Islands in 1898 traditionally marked its turn toward
imperialism, new scholarship suggests the United States was an
empire from the moment of its creation. The essays gathered in The
Early Imperial Republic move beyond the question of whether the new
republic was an empire, investigating instead where, how, and why
it was one. They use the category of empire to situate the early
United States in the global context its contemporaries understood,
drawing important connections between territorial conquests on the
continent and American incursions around the globe. They reveal an
early U.S. empire with many different faces, from merchants who
sought to profit from the republic’s imperial expansion to Native
Americans who opposed or leveraged it, from free Black
colonizationists and globe-trotting missionaries to illegal slave
traders and anti-imperial social reformers. In tracing these
stories, the volume’s contributors bring the study of early U.S.
imperialism down to earth, encouraging us to see the exertion of
U.S. power on the ground as a process that both drew upon the
example of its imperial predecessors and was forced to grapple with
their legacies. Taken together, they argue that American empire was
never confined to one era but is instead a thread throughout U.S.
history. Contributors:Brooke Bauer, Michael A. Blaakman, Eric
Burin, Emily Conroy-Krutz, Kathleen DuVal, Susan Gaunt Stearns,
Nicholas Guyatt, Amy S. Greenberg, M. Scott Heerman, Robert Lee,
Julia Lewandoski, Margot Minardi, Ousmane Power-Greene, Nakia D.
Parker, Tom Smith
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
