Transnational nation : United States history in global perspective since 1789 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Born in the struggles of empires: the American republic in war and revolution, 1789-1815
- Commerce pervades the world: economic connections and disconnections
- The beacon of improvement: political and social reform
- People in motion: nineteenth-century migration experiences
- Unwilling immigrants and diaspora dreams
- Racial and ethnic frontiers
- America's Civil War and its world historical implications
- How culture travelled: going abroad, c. 1865-1914
- Building the nation-state in the Progressive Era: the transnational context
- The empire that did not know its name
- The new world order in the era of Woodrow Wilson
- Forces of integration: war and the coming of the American century, 1925-1970
- Insular impulses: limits on international integration, 1925 to 1970
- From the 1970s to new globalization: American transnational power and its limits, 1971-2001
- Epilogue: "Nothing will ever be the same": 9/11 and the return of history.