Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 180 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
081319122X
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0813143357
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0813122821
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9780813191225
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9780813143354
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9780813122823
Content:
"Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization examines the growth of the American empire from its early nationhood to its first global military conflict. As the fledgling nation's military, industrial, and economic strength developed, the United States created policies designed to protect itself from challenges beyond its borders. According to Schoonover, a surge in U.S. activity in the Gulf-Caribbean and in Central America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was catalyzed by the same avarice and competitiveness that motivated European adventurers to seek a route to Asia centuries earlier." "Schoonover locates the origins of American globalization and expansionism in the Spanish-American War. American involvement in the War of 1898, he argues, reflects many of the fundamental patterns of our national history - exploration and discovery, labor exploitation, violence, racism, class conflict, and concern for security - that have shaped America's course since the nineteenth century. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization is the first work to identify the source of the United States' economic, political, and social policies abroad - and the actions that established it as the only remaining superpower."--Jacket
Content:
Exploration and new territories, 1780s-1850s -- The great powers in the Caribbean Basin, 1800-1890s -- The great powers in East Asia and the Pacific, 1840s-1890s -- U.S. domestic developments and social imperialism, 1850s-1890s -- Three crises: the 1893 depression, China, and Cuba -- The War of 1898 in the Pacific Basin -- The legacy of the crises of the 1890s
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index
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Maps on lining papers
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schoonover, Thomas David, 1936- Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the origins of globalization Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2003
Language:
English
URL:
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Author information:
Schoonover, Thomas D. 1936-
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