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Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two
teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in
1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri
Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than
mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores
the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements
of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the
international arena. Through his chronicle of baseball history,
games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial
dreams through globalization's instruments of free enterprise, webs
of modern communication and transport, cultural ordering of races
and societies, and a strident nationalism that galvanized notions
of American uniqueness. Spalding linked baseball to a U.S. presence
overseas, viewing the world as a market ripe for the infusion of
American ideas, products and energy. Through globalization during
the Gilded Age, he and other Americans penetrated the globe and
laid the foundation for an empire formally acquired just a decade
after their tour.
Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two
teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in
1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri
Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than
mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores
the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements
of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the
international arena. Through his chronicle of baseball history,
games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial
dreams through globalization's instruments of free enterprise, webs
of modern communication and transport, cultural ordering of races
and societies, and a strident nationalism that galvanized notions
of American uniqueness. Spalding linked baseball to a U.S. presence
overseas, viewing the world as a market ripe for the infusion of
American ideas, products and energy. Through globalization during
the Gilded Age, he and other Americans penetrated the globe and
laid the foundation for an empire formally acquired just a decade
after their tour.
A wide-ranging history of modern America that argues that free
trade has been an engine of US foreign policy and the key to global
prosperity. Surprisingly, exports and imports, tariffs and quotas,
and trade deficits and surpluses are central to American foreign
relations. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt took office during the
Great Depression, the United States has linked trade to its
long-term diplomatic objectives and national security. Washington,
DC saw free trade as underscoring its international leadership and
as instrumental to global prosperity, to winning wars and peace,
and to shaping the liberal internationalist world order. Free
trade, in short, was a cornerstone of an ideology of "capitalist
peace." Covering nearly a century, Capitalist Peace provides the
first chronologically sweeping look at the intersection of trade
and diplomacy. This policy has been pursued oftentimes at a cost to
US producers and workers, whose interests were sacrificed to serve
the purpose of grand strategy. To be sure, capitalists sought a
particular type of global trade, which harnessed the market through
free trade. This liberal trade policy sought the common good as
defined by the needs, aims, and strengths of the capitalist and
democratic world. Leaders believed that free trade advanced private
enterprise, which, in turn, promoted prosperity, democracy,
security, and attendant by-products like development, cooperation,
integration, and human rights. The capitalist peace took
liberalization as integral to cooperation among nations and even to
morality in global affairs. Drawing on new research from the
Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush presidential
libraries, as well as business/ industry and civic association
archives, Thomas W. Zeiler narrates this history from the road to
World War II, through the Cold War, to the resurgent protectionism
of the Trump era and up to the present. Offering a new
interpretation of diplomatic history, Capitalist Peace shows how US
power, interests, and values were projected into the international
arena even as capitalism brought both positive and negative results
to the global order.
Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from
the end of World War II to the present, an era when transnational
communities began to challenge the long domination of the
nation-state. In this single-volume survey, leading scholars
elucidate the political, economic, cultural, and environmental
forces that have shaped the planet in the past sixty years.
Offering fresh insight into international politics since 1945,
Wilfried Loth examines how miscalculations by both the United
States and the Soviet Union brought about a Cold War conflict that
was not necessarily inevitable. Thomas Zeiler explains how American
free-market principles spurred the creation of an entirely new
economic order--a global system in which goods and money flowed
across national borders at an unprecedented rate, fueling growth
for some nations while also creating inequalities in large parts of
the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. From an environmental
viewpoint, J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke contend that humanity
has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene era, in which massive
industrialization and population growth have become the most
powerful influences upon global ecology. Petra Goedde analyzes how
globalization has impacted indigenous cultures and questions the
extent to which a generic culture has erased distinctiveness and
authenticity. She shows how, paradoxically, the more cultures
blended, the more diversified they became as well. Combining these
different perspectives, volume editor Akira Iriye presents a model
of transnational historiography in which individuals and groups
enter history not primarily as citizens of a country but as
migrants, tourists, artists, and missionaries--actors who create
networks that transcend traditional geopolitical boundaries.
From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status
as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed
worldwide by millions each season, the linkages between baseball's
evolution and our nation's history are undeniable. Through war,
depression, times of tumultuous upheaval and of great prosperity -
baseball has been held up as our national pastime: the single
greatest expression of America's values and ideals. Combining a
comprehensive history of the game with broader analyses of
America's historical and cultural developments, National Pastime
encapsulates the values that have allowed it to endure: hope,
tradition, escape, revolution. While nostalgia, scandal, malaise
and triumph are contained within the study of any American
historical moment, we see in this book that the tensions and
developments within the game of baseball afford the best window
into a deeper understanding of America's past, its purpose, and its
principles.
Guide to U.S. Economic Policy shows students and researchers how
issues and actions are translated into public policies for
resolving economic problems (like the Great Recession) or managing
economic conflict (like the left-right ideological split over the
role of government regulation in markets). Taking an
interdisciplinary approach, the guide highlights decision-making
cycles requiring the cooperation of government, business, and an
informed citizenry to achieve a comprehensive approach to a
successful, growth-oriented economic policy. Through 30 topical,
operational, and relational essays, the book addresses the
development of U.S. economic policies from the colonial period to
today; the federal agencies and public and private organizations
that influence and administer economic policies; the challenges of
balancing economic development with environmental and social goals;
and the role of the U.S. in international organizations such as the
IMF and WTO. Key Features: 30 essays by experts in the field
investigate the fundamental economic, political, social, and
process initiatives that drive policy decisions affecting the
nation's economic stability and success. Essential themes traced
throughout the chapters include scarcity, wealth creation, theories
of economic growth and macroeconomic management, controlling
inflation and unemployment, poverty, the role of government
agencies and regulations to police markets, Congress vs. the
president, investment policies, economic indicators, the balance of
trade, and the immediate and long-term costs associated with
economic policy alternatives. A glossary of key economic terms and
events, a summary of bureaus and agencies charged with economic
policy decisions, a master bibliography, and a thorough index
appear at the back of the book.
Alfred Eckes and Thomas Zeiler argue that the "American Century" of global leadership resulted from revolutionary improvements in technology combined with the leadership elite's enthusiasm for free trade. The authors reveal how this formula helped the nation rise to economic power after the Spanish-American War, and win both world wars and the Cold War. America's power and cultural influence soared as business and financial interests pursued global market dominance in the following decade. But the tragic events of September 2001 and the growing volatility of global finance raise questions as to whether the era of American-led globalization is sustainable.
Alfred Eckes and Thomas Zeiler argue that the "American Century" of global leadership resulted from revolutionary improvements in technology combined with the leadership elite's enthusiasm for free trade. The authors reveal how this formula helped the nation rise to economic power after the Spanish-American War, and win both world wars and the Cold War. America's power and cultural influence soared as business and financial interests pursued global market dominance in the following decade. But the tragic events of September 2001 and the growing volatility of global finance raise questions as to whether the era of American-led globalization is sustainable.
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