This volume introduces students to primary documents on American empire from a pivotal era of U.S. expansion beyond the North American continent in the late-nin
Touching upon key themes like race, citizenship, civilization, democracy, cross-cultural encounter, and self-determination, American Empire at the Turn of the T
By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition.
The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is t
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