Transnational nation : United States history in global perspective since 1789 /
Ian Tyrrell.
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- x, 286 p. ; 24 cm
1: Born in the struggles of empires : the American Republic in war and revolution, 1789-1815 -- Page 10 2: Commerce pervades the world : economic connections and disconnections -- Page 20 3: beacon of improvement : political and social reform -- Page 39 4: People in motion : nineteenth-century migration experiences -- Page 52 5: Unwilling immigrants and diaspora dreams -- Page 65 6: Racial and ethnic frontiers -- Page 74 7: America's Civil War and its world historical implications -- Page 84 8: How culture travelled : going abroad, c. 1865-1914 -- Page 94 9: Building the nation-state in the progressive era : the transnational context -- Page 118 10: empire that did not know its name -- Page 134 11: new world order in the era of Woodrow Wilson -- Page 155 12: Forces of integration : war and the coming of the American century, 1925-70 -- Page 170 13: Insular impulses : limits on international integration, 1925-70 -- Page 187 14: From the 1970s to new globalization : American transnational power and its limits, 1971-2001 -- Page 201 Epilogue : 'nothing will ever be the same' : 9/11 and the return of history -- Page 223
A fresh, comparative perspective on the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world.
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