The Cambridge History of America and the World

This volume examines US empire-building and other aspects of its relationship with the world in the nineteenth century.

Kristin Hoganson (Edited by), Jay Sexton (Edited by)

9781108419239, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 March 2022

784 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 3.9 cm, 1.38 kg

'Let me be clear from the start: this is a wonderful collection….The fluidity of interpretation, conceptual precision, clarity of the exposition, and efficiency of the analysis is excellent…. It is a stimulating and engaging volume, full of interest, insight, and impressive synthesis.' Stephen Tuffnell, H-Diplo

The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental, legal, technological, and other veins of analysis, it places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their peoples in the context of a rapidly integrating world. Specific topics addressed in the volume include nation and empire building, inter-Indigenous relations, settler colonialism, slavery and statecraft, the Mexican-American War, global integration, the antislavery international, the global dimensions of the Civil War, overseas empire-building, state formation, international law, global capitalism, border-crossing movement politics, technology, health, the environment, immigration policy, missionary endeavors, mobility, tourism, expatriation, cultural production, colonial intimacies, borderlands, the liberal North Atlantic, US-African relations, Islamic world encounters, the US island empire, the greater Caribbean world, and transimperial entanglements.

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Contributors to Volume II
General Introduction: What is America and the World? Mark Philip Bradley
Introduction to Volume II Jay Sexton and Kristin Hoganson
Part I. Building and Resisting U.S. Empire: 1. The United States between Nation and Empire, 1776–1820 Nicholas Guyatt
2. Indigenous Nations and the United States Donna L. Akers
3. Settler Colonialism Jeffrey Ostler
4. Slavery and Statecraft Robert Bonner
5. The Mexican-American War Alice L. Baumgartner
6. Containing Empire: The United States and the World in the Civil War Era Brian Schoen
7. The United States in an Age of Global Integration, 1865–1897 David Sim
8. The Wars of 1898 and the US Overseas Empire John Tone
Part II. Imperial Structures: 9. The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783–1900 Max M. Edling
10. The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919 Eileen P. Scully
11. The United States and Global Capitalism Dael A. Norwood
12. Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition Christina Heatherton
13. The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900 Dirk Bönker
14. Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century Peter Shulman
15. The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century Andrew C. Isenberg
Part III. Americans and the World: 16. Foreign Relations Between Indigenous Polities, 1820–1900 Brian DeLay
17. Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924 Madeline Y. Hsu
18. The Antislavery International R. J. M. Blackett
19. American Missionaries in the World Emily Conroy-Krutz
20. Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism Brian Rouleau
21. Colonial Intimacies in US Empire Tessa Marie Winkelmann
22. Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World Daniel Bender
Part IV. Americans in the World: 23. The Changing Geography of Mobility, 1820-1940 Donna R. Gabaccia
24. The United States and the Greater Caribbean, 1763-1898 Luis Martínez Fernández
25. Borderlands and Border Crossings Sam Truett
26. The Liberal North Atlantic Leslie Butler
27. 'To Enter America from Africa and Africa from America' during the Nineteenth Century Jeannette Eileen Jones
28. Islamic World Encounters Karine V. Walther
29. The American Island Empire: US Expansionism in the Pacific and the Caribbean JoAnna Poblete
30. Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization Ian Tyrrell
Index.

Subject Areas: Diplomacy [JPSD], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], History of the Americas [HBJK]