Book contents
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- 9 The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783–1900
- 10 The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919
- 11 The United States and Global Capitalism
- 12 Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition
- 13 The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900
- 14 Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century
- 15 The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
13 - The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900
from Part II - Imperial Structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- 9 The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783–1900
- 10 The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919
- 11 The United States and Global Capitalism
- 12 Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition
- 13 The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900
- 14 Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century
- 15 The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
Summary
In April 1899, prominent Independent Republican Carl Schurz gave a lecture entitled “Militarism and Democracy” to the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Treating the “matter of militarism in the United States in intimate connection with our warlike enterprises,” Schurz argued that the nation was at a crossroads: it could enter the Europe-centered world of militarism, war, and empire or continue to keep its distance from that world. In framing this choice, Schurz set the specter of an imperial and militaristic present and future against a virtuous republican past shaped by a miniscule military establishment, purportedly peaceful expansion, and overall distance from European-style bellicism and empire.
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 316 - 336Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022