American Empire by Hopkins, A. G.; -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Preface Prologue: Lessons of Liberation: Iraq, 1915–1921 Chapter 1: Three Crises and an Outcome

The Choice among Alternatives Beyond “The National Ideology of American Exceptionalism” Empire: “A Rose by Any Other Name…”? Globalization and Empires Time and Motion “The Growing Labours of the Lengthen’d Way”

Part I: Decolonization and Dependence, 1756–1865

Chapter 2: The Advance and Retreat of the Military-Fiscal State

Cause and Chronology A Great Convergence? The Glorious Revolution, and the Exceptional Military-Fiscal State The Evolution of Britain’s Military-Fiscal State The New Global Order War, Reconstruction, and Reform Britain: “The Union of Permanence and Change” “A Vast Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets” “The Image of the Past Projected on the Mist of the Unknown”

Chapter 3: From Revolution to Constitution

Harry Washington and the Emerging Global Order Toward “The New Colony-System” John Company at Work A Revolution of Declining Expectations “An Indissoluble Union of the States under One Federal Head” “Spectacles of Turbulence and Contention” “Not an Empire, but the Project of an Empire”

Chapter 4: The Struggle for Independence

Midnight’s Children The Rhetoric and the Reality of Revolution Dilemmas of Dependent Development Cultural Continuities “Converting the Forests of a Wilderness into the Favourite Mansion of Liberty”

Chapter 5: Wars of Incorporation

Part II: Modernity and Imperialism, 1865–1914

Chapter 6: Uneven Development and Imperial Expansion

“The Earth, Restive, Confronts a New Era” “Via Pecunia”: The Road to Modern Globalization “O, My Brothers, Love Your Country” The Great Deflation Globalization and “New” Imperialism Lions, Jackals, and the Scramble for Empire “This Is a New Age; The Age of Social Advancement Not of Feudal Sports”

Chapter 7: Achieving Effective Independence

“In the Midst of Confusion and Distress” “All Has Been Lost, Except Office or the Hope of It” “Beautiful Credit! The Foundation of Modern Society” The Culture of Cosmopolitan Nationalism From “Union” to “America”

Chapter 8: Acquiring an Unexceptional Empire

“Our World Opportunity, World Duty, and World Glory” The Battle Over the Wars of 1898 Don Quixote’s Last Ride Mobilizing the Means of Destruction “The Irresistible Tendency to Expansion … Seems Again in Operation” “We Come as Ministering Angels, Not as Despots” “Destiny, Divinity and Dollars”

Chapter 9: Insular Perspectives on an Intrusive World

“The Wheels of the Modern Political Juggernaut” Sugaring the Pill Cuba: “A Lot of Degenerates Absolutely Devoid of Honor and Gratitude” Puerto Rico: “Into History as a Picnic” The Philippines: “Land that I Idolise, Sorrow of my Sorrow” Hawai‘i: “A People Fast Passing Away” Wars of Choice

Intermission: Tarzan’s Mirror to Modernity

Part III: Empires and International Disorder, 1914–1959

Chapter 10: The Modern Imperial System: From Conquest to Collapse

The “American Century”? Isolation or Integration? World War I and the Return to Normality “One of the Greatest Economic Catastrophes of Modern History” The War to Break and Re-Make Empires The Second Colonial Occupation Liberation—Colonial Style The End of the Affair

Chapter 11: Ruling the Forgotten Empire

Buyers’ Remorse “A Greater England with a Nobler Destiny” The Modernizing Mission Owning an Empire: Congress and the Constitution Lobbies and Liberties “A Course of Tuition under a Strong and Guiding Hand” “Hardly a Ripple of Failure upon the Stream of Our Success” Prospective

Chapter 12: Caribbean Carnival

Pleasure Islands Puerto Rico: “An Example of the Best Methods of Administering Our Insular Possessions” Cuba: “That Infernal Little Republic” “Now, No Longer Can We Be Unmoved”

Chapter 13: Paradise in the Pacific

Chapter 14: “The Twilight of Confused Colonialism”

“Surrendering Authority and Retaining Responsibility” The Global Setting Holding On Protection in the Pacific Coercion and Collaboration in the Caribbean Moving On Progress in the Pacific? Contrasts in the Caribbean Conclusion: “A Shining Example of the American Way for the Entire Earth”

Part IV: The Outcome: Postcolonial Globalization

Chapter 15: Dominance and Decline in the Postcolonial Age

“The One Duty We Owe to History Is to Rewrite It” Globalization and Empires Postcolonial Globalization The United States: The Aspiring Hegemon Captain America: To Be Continued?

Epilogue: Lessons of Liberation: Iraq, 2003–2011 Notes Index