A nation among nations : America's place in world history
History
xii, 368 pages ; 21 cm
9780809072354, 9780809095278, 0809072351, 0809095270
1110280290
1. The ocean world and the beginnings of American history
The island world
Going global
People from the sea
Atlantic Creoles
The plantation complex
2. The "Great War" and the American Revolution
Global empires
A continuous war, 1754-1783
1783
The age of Atlantic revolutions
A new nation in a dangerous world
Foreign affairs and partisan politics
A new nationalism
3. Freedom in an age of nation-making
1848
The birth of new nations
The federative crisis
Territoriality and liberal nationalism
The Republican party
Remembering nationalism and forgetting liberalism
4. An empire among empires
Ahab and empire
Being the whale
The rhetoric of empire
A global strategy
1898
Revolution and empire
Making the world safe for empire
5. The industrial world and the transformation of liberalism
The two revolutions and social citizenship
Paths away from Laissez-Faire
Professional risk and the moral imagination
The reform international and the World Wide Web
Common challenges and local politics
6. Global history and America today