The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 2, 1812-1900

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The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental, legal, technological, and other veins of analysis, it places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their peoples in the context of a rapidly integrating world. Specific topics addressed in the volume include nation and empire building, inter-Indigenous relations, settler colonialism, slavery and statecraft, the Mexican-American War, global integration, the antislavery international, the global dimensions of the Civil War, overseas empire-building, state formation, international law, global capitalism, border-crossing movement politics, technology, health, the environment, immigration policy, missionary endeavors, mobility, tourism, expatriation, cultural production, colonial intimacies, borderlands, the liberal North Atlantic, US-African relations, Islamic world encounters, the US island empire, the greater Caribbean world, and transimperial entanglements. Contents Figures Maps Tables List of Contributors to Volume II General Introduction: What is America and the World? Introduction to Volume II Part I. Building and Resisting US Empire 1. The United States between Nation and Empire, 1776 - 1820 2. Indigenous Nations and the United States 3. Settler Colonialism 4. Slavery and Statecraft 5. The Mexican American War 6. Containing Empire: The United States and the World in the Civil War Era 7. The United States in an Age of Global Integration, 1865 - 1897 8. The Wars of 1898 and the US Overseas Empire Part II. Imperial Structures 9. The US Fiscal Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783 - 1900 10. The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819 - 1919 11. The United States and Global Capitalism 12. Making the First International: Nineteenth Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition 13. The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865 - 1900 14. Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century 15. The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century Part III. Americans and the World 16. Foreign Relations between Indigenous Polities, 1820 - 1900 17. Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924 18. The Antislavery International 19. American Missionaries in the World 20. Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism 21. Colonial Intimacies in US Empire 22. Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in 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