America's road to empire : foreign policy from independence to World War One / Piero Gleijeses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gleijeses, Piero, author.

Contributor:

Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Series:

New approaches to international history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

United States--Foreign relations--1783-1865.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921.

United States--Territorial expansion.

Territorial expansion.

United States--Colonial question.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 379 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States foreign relations from the country's independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies. The book covers key themes including: - the role that notions of "white superiority" played in US foreign policy - the search for absolute security that repeatedly led the United States to trample on the liberties of other countries; - and the idea of American 'exceptionalism' - the clash between the idealism of US rhetoric and its actions - which has led to a persistent failure to understand how "European" U.S. policy actually was. Whilst providing analytical overview, Piero Gleijeses also uses case studies which examine overlooked aspects of U.S. foreign policy, particularly concerning marginalized populations. He draws on archival U.S. and European primary sources and incorporates the latest research from the US, British, French and Spanish archives, as well as newspapers from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. A highly original account of the United States' rise to power drawing on multilingual scholarship, this is an important book for all students and scholars of United States foreign relations up to the First World War"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Independence

2. The Federalist Era

3. The Louisiana Purchase

4. Jefferson's Second Term

5. The War of 1812

6. The Limits of Sympathy: The United States and the Independence of Spanish America

7. Indian Removal: A "Sickening Mass of Putrefaction"

8. Manifest Destiny

9. The 1850s and the Civil War

10. After Appomattox

11. Cuba and the Philippines

12. Conquering the Backyard: The Latin American Policy of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

13. The Far East

14. The White City on the Hill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Gleijeses, Piero. America's road to empire

ISBN:

9781350028678

1350028673

9781350028685

1350028681

OCLC:

1242911287

Publisher Number:

99989376520