TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gleijeses,Piero
TI  - America's road to empire: foreign policy from independence to World War One 
T2  - New approaches to international history
SN  - 9781350028708
AV  - E183.7 .G553 2021eb
U1  - 327.73009/034 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London, England
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
KW  - bicssc
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1783-1865
KW  - 1865-1921
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - Colonial question
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Independence -- The Federalist era -- The Louisiana Purchase -- Jefferson's second term -- The war of 1812 -- The limits of sympathy : the independence of Spanish America -- Indian removal : a "sickening mass of putrefaction." -- Manifest destiny -- The 1850s and the Civil War -- After Appomattox -- Cuba and the Philippines -- Conquering the backyard -- The Far East -- The white city on the hill; Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers; Also published in print
N2  - "America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States foreign relations from the country's independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies. The book covers key themes including: - the role that notions of "white superiority" played in US foreign policy - the search for absolute security that repeatedly led the United States to trample on the liberties of other countries; - and the idea of American 'exceptionalism' - the clash between the idealism of US rhetoric and its actions - which has led to a persistent failure to understand how "European" U.S. policy actually was. Whilst providing analytical overview, Piero Gleijeses also uses case studies which examine overlooked aspects of U.S. foreign policy, particularly concerning marginalized populations. He draws on archival U.S. and European primary sources and incorporates the latest research from the US, British, French and Spanish archives, as well as newspapers from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. A highly original account of the United States' rise to power drawing on multilingual scholarship, this is an important book for all students and scholars of United States foreign relations up to the First World War"--
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350028708?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -