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 |
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