American Empire in Global History

This book shows how the predominantly national focus that characterises studies of the United States after 1783 can be integrated with global trends, as viewed from the perspective of imperial history.**

Autorentext

Shigeru Akita is Professor of Global History, Osaka University, Japan. His major publications include From Empires to Development Aid (2017, in Japanese); (ed. with G. Krozewski); The Transformation of the International Order of Asia: Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan ****(London: Routledge, 2015).

Inhalt

Part 1: Introduction 1. American Empire in Global History Part 2: The American Revolution and The Post-Colonial Order 2. Imperial Confusion: America's Post-colonial and Post-revolutionary Empire 3. United States Expansion and Incorporation in the Long Nineteenth-Century 4. The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins's American Empire Part 3: Insular Perspectives on Empire 5. Cuba: Context and Consequences for the American Empire 6. The Road to 1898: On American Empire and the Philippine Revolution 7. Restoring Asia to the Global Moment of 1898 Part 4: The Empire in the Twentieth Century 8. Law Against Empire, or Law for Empire? - American Imagination and the International Legal Order in the Twentieth Century 9. Informal Empire and the Cold War Part 5: Response 10. Imperial Puzzles