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The price of empire : American entrepreneurs and the origins of America's first Pacific empire / Miles M. Evers, Eric Grynaviski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evers, Miles, author.
- Grynaviski, Eric, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- United States--Territorial expansion--History.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Islands of the Pacific.
- Islands of the Pacific--Foreign relations--United States.
- Islands of the Pacific.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Providing the best coverage of the wide-ranging imperialism that began in the 1850s, this book concentrates on early American imperialism in the Pacific and includes colourful. It describes how the racial legacy of early cases of imperialism led to modern denial of rights claims in U.S. Pacific territories"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- One man and no dog: an entrepreneurial theory of American Pacific imperialism
- Birds and bases: American expansion under the Guano Act
- Germans and coconuts: American imperialism in Samoa
- Sugar and paradise: American imperialism in Hawaii
- Slavers and gin runners: explaining Pacific non-expansion
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Mar 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781009396349
- 100939634X
- 9781009396325
- 1009396323
- 9781009396356
- 1009396358
- OCLC:
- 1428259066
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