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
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- 23 The Changing Geography of Mobility, 1820–1940
- 24 The United States and the Greater Caribbean, 1763–1898
- 25 Borderlands and Border Crossings
- 26 The Liberal North Atlantic
- 27 “To Enter America from Africa and Africa from America” during the Nineteenth Century
- 28 Islamic World Encounters
- 29 The American Island Empire: US Expansionism in the Pacific and the Caribbean
- 30 Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization
- Index
30 - Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization
from Part IV - Americans in the World
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
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- 23 The Changing Geography of Mobility, 1820–1940
- 24 The United States and the Greater Caribbean, 1763–1898
- 25 Borderlands and Border Crossings
- 26 The Liberal North Atlantic
- 27 “To Enter America from Africa and Africa from America” during the Nineteenth Century
- 28 Islamic World Encounters
- 29 The American Island Empire: US Expansionism in the Pacific and the Caribbean
- 30 Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization
- Index
Summary
The United States was born in an imperial world, and grew to economic preeminence in an era of intense globalization. At first its citizens experienced empire as the struggle with the motherland and among the contending European powers that fought over North America and in the North Atlantic from 1750 to 1815. From 1815, this inter-imperial entanglement became increasingly focused on the relationship with the British empire. The American empire as both aspiration and practice emerged from and was heavily influenced by this relationship. Having developed its own imperial agenda under the hegemony of British naval and economic power on a global level, the United States gradually came to challenge this unequal relationship. Informal and formal empire are relevant to such trans-imperial entanglements as are non-state actors such as missionaries and entrepreneurs.
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 716 - 737Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022