Verfasst von:	Evers, Miles M. [VerfasserIn]
	Grynaviski, Eric [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The price of empire
Titelzusatz:	American entrepreneurs and the origins of America's first Pacific empire
Verf.angabe:	Miles Evers, Eric Grynaviski
Verlagsort:	New York
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	xvi, 196 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-009-39636-3
	978-1-009-39637-0
Abstract:	"Providing the best coverage of the wide-ranging imperialism that began in the 1850s, this book concentrates on early American imperialism in the Pacific and includes colourful. It describes how the racial legacy of early cases of imperialism led to modern denial of rights claims in U.S. Pacific territories"--
	The United States was an upside-down British Empire. It had an agrarian economy, few large investors, and no territorial holdings outside of North America. However, decades before the Spanish-American War, the United States quietly began to establish an empire across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean. While conventional wisdom suggests that large interests - the military and major business interests - drove American imperialism, The Price of Empire argues that early American imperialism was driven by small entrepreneurs. When commodity prices boomed, these small entrepreneurs took risks, racing ahead of the American state. Yet when profits were threatened, they clamoured for the US government to follow them into the Pacific. Through novel, intriguing stories of American small businessmen, this book shows how American entrepreneurs manipulated the United States into pursuing imperial projects in the Pacific. It explores their travels abroad and highlights the consequences of contemporary struggles for justice in the Pacific
DOI:	doi:10.1017/978109396356
URL:	Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313030393339363336337C7C434F50.jpg?sq=3
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/978109396356
Schlagwörter:	(g)USA    / (s)Privatunternehmen    / (s)Geopolitik    / (s)Expansionspolitik    / (g)Pazifischer Raum    / (z)Geschichte 1800-1900
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Evers, Miles: Price of empire. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024
Sach-SW:	Amerikanische Geschichte
	Colonialism & imperialism
	Economic history
	Geopolitics
	Geopolitik
	History of the Americas
	Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
	Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
	Political economy
	Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
Geograph. SW:	USA
	Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
Zeit-SW:	c 1800 to c 1900
	zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
K10plus-PPN:	1880655519