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Transnational nation : United States history in global perspective since 1789 / Ian Tyrrell.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Eng Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan Education : Palgrave, 2015Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xvii, 310 pages : maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781137338549 (pbk.)
  • 1137338547 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973 23
LOC classification:
  • 002 E 178.1 T993t 2015
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.
Summary: The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. In this revised and updated new edition, Tyrrell explores the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world
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Original edition published in 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-300) and index.

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.

The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. In this revised and updated new edition, Tyrrell explores the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world

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