Crossing Empires -

Crossing Empires

Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain
Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0694-7 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context as a way to grasp the power relations that shape imperial formations.
Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. With case studies ranging from the 1830s to the late twentieth century, the contributors address topics including diplomacy, governance, anticolonialism, labor, immigration, medicine, religion, and race. Their transimperial approach—whether exemplified in examinations of U.S. steel corporations partnering with British imperialists to build the Ugandan railway or the U.S. reliance on other empires in its governance of the Philippines—transcends histories of interimperial rivalries and conflicts. In so doing, the contributors illuminate the power dynamics of seemingly transnational histories and the imperial origins of contemporary globality.

Contributors. Ikuko Asaka, Oliver Charbonneau, Genevieve Clutario, Anne L. Foster, Julian Go, Michel Gobat, Julie Greene, Kristin L. Hoganson, Margaret D. Jacobs, Moon-Ho Jung, Marc-William Palen, Nicole M. Phelps, Jay Sexton, John Soluri, Stephen Tuffnell

Kristin L. Hoganson is Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of The Heartland: An American History. Jay Sexton is Kinder Institute Chair in Constitutional Democracy and Professor of History at the University of Missouri and author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History.

Preface  vii
Introduction / Kristin Hoganson and Jay Sexton  1
Part I. In Pursuit of Profit
1. Fur Sealing and Unsettled Sovereignties / John Soluri  25
2. Crossing the Rift: American Steel and Colonial Labor in Britain's East Africa Protectorate / Stephen Tuffnell  46
Part II. Transimperial Politics
3. "Our Indian Empire": The Transimperial Origins of U.S. Liberal Imperialism / Michel Gobat  69
4. Empire, Democracy, and Discipline: The Transimperial History of the Secret Ballot / Julian Go  93
5. Medicine to Drug: Opium's Transimperial Journey / Anne L. Foster  112
Part III. Governing Structures
6. One Service, Three Systems, Many Empires: The U.S. Consular Service and the Growth of U.S. Global Power, 1789-1924 / Nicole M. Phelps  135
7. Transimperial Roots of American Anti-Imperialism: The Transatlantic Radicalism of Free Trade, 1846-1920 / Marc-Williams Palen  159
8. The Permeable South: Imperial Interactivities in the Islamic Philippines, 1899-1930s / Oliver Charbonneau  183
Part IV. Living Transimperially
9. African-American Migration and the Climatic Language of Anglophone Settler Colonialism / Ikuko Asaka  205
10. Entangled in Empires: British Antillean Migrations in the World of the Panama Canal / Julie Greene  222
11. World War II and the Promise of Normalcy: Overlapping Empires and Everyday Lives in the Philippines / Genevieve Clutario  241
Part V. Resistance Across Empires
12. Fighting John Bull and Uncle Sam: South Asian Revolutionaries Confront the Modern State / Moon-Ho Jung  261
13. Indigenous Child Removal and Transimperial Indigenous Women's Activism across Settler Colonial Nations in the Late Twentieth Century / Margaret D. Jacobs  281
Bibliography  303
Contributors  335
Index  339

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie American Encounters/Global Interactions
Zusatzinfo 9 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 522 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-4780-0694-3 / 1478006943
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-0694-7 / 9781478006947
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