A nation among nations
A nation among nations: America's place in world history Thomas Bender,
Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.
ISBN: 0809095270
DDC: 973
LCC: E178
Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-348) and index.
1. The ocean world and the beginnings of American history -- The
island world -- Going global -- People from the sea -- Atlantic
Creoles -- The plantation complex -- 2. The "Great War" and the
American Revolution -- Global empires -- A continuous war, 1754-1783
-- 1783 -- The age of Atlantic revolutions -- A new nation in a
dangerous world -- Foreign affairs and partisan politics -- A new
nationalism -- 3. Freedom in an age of nation-making -- 1848 -- The
birth of new nations -- The federative crisis -- Territoriality and
liberal nationalism -- The republican party -- Remembering
nationalism and forgetting liberalism -- 4. An empire among empires
-- Ahab and empire -- Being the whale -- The rhetoric of empire -- A
global strategy -- 1898 -- Revolution and empire -- Making the world
safe for empire -- 5. The industrial world and the transformation of
liberalism -- The two revolutions and social citizenship -- Paths
away from Laissez-Faire -- Professional risk and the moral
imagination -- The reform international and the World Wide Web --
Common challenges and local politics -- 6. Global history and America
today.
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