Author: Julian Go Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822389320 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 392
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When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic government at the political elite: the relatively small class of the wealthy, educated, and politically powerful within each colony. While they retained ultimate control for themselves, the Americans let the elite vote, hold local office, and formulate legislation in national assemblies. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an examination of how these efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a practical education in self-government played out on the ground in the early years of American colonial rule, from 1898 until 1912. It is the first systematic comparative analysis of these early exercises in American imperial power. The sociologist Julian Go unravels how American authorities used “culture” as both a tool and a target of rule, and how the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite received, creatively engaged, and sometimes silently subverted the Americans’ ostensibly benign intentions. Rather than finding that the attempt to transplant American-style democracy led to incommensurable “culture clashes,” Go assesses complex processes of cultural accommodation and transformation. By combining rich historical detail with broader theories of meaning, culture, and colonialism, he provides an innovative study of the hidden intersections of political power and cultural meaning-making in America’s earliest overseas empire.
Author: Julian Go Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822342298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 396
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An assessment of Americans efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines an education in self-government in the early years of U.S. colonial rule.
Author: Julian Go Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781107600782 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms, and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous intervention in the Middle East, and overextended imperial confidence. A critical exercise in revisionist history and comparative social science, this book also offers a challenging theory of empire that recognizes the agency of non-Western peoples, the impact of global fields, and the limits of imperial power.
Author: Jerry Bailey Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc. ISBN: 1587368048 Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
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"The Fall of the American Empire" not only asks thought-provoking questions about the state of the nation, but also proposes solutions to make the country prosper in the 21st century.
Author: Andrew J. Bacevich Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674252144 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 313
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In a challenging, provocative book, Andrew Bacevich reconsiders the assumptions and purposes governing the exercise of American global power. Examining the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton--as well as George W. Bush's first year in office--he demolishes the view that the United States has failed to devise a replacement for containment as a basis for foreign policy. He finds instead that successive post-Cold War administrations have adhered to a well-defined "strategy of openness." Motivated by the imperative of economic expansionism, that strategy aims to foster an open and integrated international order, thereby perpetuating the undisputed primacy of the world's sole remaining superpower. Moreover, openness is not a new strategy, but has been an abiding preoccupation of policymakers as far back as Woodrow Wilson. Although based on expectations that eliminating barriers to the movement of trade, capital, and ideas nurtures not only affluence but also democracy, the aggressive pursuit of openness has met considerable resistance. To overcome that resistance, U.S. policymakers have with increasing frequency resorted to force, and military power has emerged as never before as the preferred instrument of American statecraft, resulting in the progressive militarization of U.S. foreign policy. Neither indictment nor celebration, American Empire sees the drive for openness for what it is--a breathtakingly ambitious project aimed at erecting a global imperium. Large questions remain about that project's feasibility and about the human, financial, and moral costs that it will entail. By penetrating the illusions obscuring the reality of U.S. policy, this book marks an essential first step toward finding the answers.
Author: William Appleman Williams Publisher: Ig Publishing ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 230
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Influential historian William Appleman Williams' groundbreaking work highlights imperialism as the central theme in American political and cultural history. Analysing more than 225 years of American history, from the Founding Fathers to the dawn of the Reagan era, Williams shows how America has always been addicted to empire in its foreign and domestic ideology.
Author: Joshua Freeman Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0143123491 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 546
Book Description
A landmark history of postwar America and the second volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner In this momentous work, acclaimed labor historian Joshua B. Freeman presents an epic portrait of the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, revealing a nation galvanized by change even as conflict seethed within its borders. Beginning in 1945, he charts the astounding rise of the labor movement and its pitched struggle with the bastions of American capitalism in the 1940s and '50s, untangling the complicated threads between the workers’ agenda and that of the civil rights and women’s movements. Through the lens of civil rights, the Cold War struggle, and the labor movement, American Empire teaches us something profound about our past while illuminating the issues that continue to animate American political discourse today.
Author: Walter Russell Mead Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 416
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"Walter Russell Mead describes the rise of America's liberal world empire, its golden years from World War II until the mid 1960s, and its continuing decline since then. He puts the American empire in the context of past empires - Athenian, Roman, British - and shows that decline is inevitable, but also that we can choose the shape of our postimperial future. He particularly examines the unsuccessful attempts of our last four administrations to deal with issues arising from the decline of the American Empire."--Book Jacket.
Author: Richard Warner Van Alstyne Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393007503 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 244
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Examines the origins, emergence, growth, and peculiar characteristics of the United States as a national state whose policies and goals have been, from the beginning, those of an empire. Bibliogs.
Author: A. G. Hopkins Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691196877 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1002
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"Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again."--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.
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