Endless empire : Spain's retreat, Europe's eclipse, America's decline / edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson.

Other author McCoy, Alfred W.
Other author Fradera, Josep Maria.
Other author Jacobson, Stephen (Stephen H.)
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2012.
Descriptionxiii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Imperialism--History.
United States--Foreign relations. --History.
Spain--Foreign relations. --History.
Europe--Foreign relations. --History.

Contents 5050 Fatal florescence : Europe's decolonization and America's decline / Alfred W. McCoy -- Eclipse and collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1650-1898 / Josep M. Delgado Ribas -- Empires in retreat : Spain and Portugal after the Napoleonic wars / Josep M. Fradera -- Imperial ambitions in an era of decline : micromilitarism and the eclipse of the Spanish Empire, 1858-1923 / Stephen Jacobson -- The empire is no longer a social unit : declining imperial expectations and transatlantic crises in metropolitan Spain, 1859-1909 / Albert Garcia Balañà -- Facing south : how Latin America socialized United States diplomacy / Greg Grandin -- Alliance imperialism and Anglo-American power after 1898 : the origins of open-door internationalism / Courtney Johnson -- Pro-imperialist nationalists at the end of Spain's Caribbean empire / Francisco A. Scarano -- Imperial transition in the Philippines : the making of a colonial discourse about Spanish rule / María Dolores Elizalde -- The broken image : the Spanish Empire in the United States after 1898 / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Information and intelligence in the mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the British Empire / Tony Ballantyne -- The fin de siècles of Great Britain and the United States : comparing two declining phases of global capitalist hegemony / Kelvin Santiago-Valles -- The geopolitics of decolonization / John Darwin -- The absent empire : the colonies in French constitutions / Emmanuelle Saada -- When did decolonization end? France and the ending of empire / Robert Aldrich -- Decolonizing France : L.S. Senghor's redemptive program for African socialism / Gary Wilder -- Informal empire : the case of Siam and the Middle East / Gregory A. Barton -- Scientific patriotism : medical science and national self-fashioning in Southeast Asia / Warwick Anderson and Hans Pols -- Decolonization and the roots of democracy / Remco Raben -- Natives who were citizens and natives who were indigenas in the Portuguese Empire, 1900-1926 / Cristina Nogueira da Silva -- From subjecthood to citizenship in South Asia : migration, nationality, and the post-imperial global order / Joya Charrerji -- The three R's and the making of a new world order : reparation, reconstruction, relief, and U.S. policy, 1945-1952 / Greg Bankoff -- Entangled empires : the United States and European imperial formations in the mid-twentieth century / Julian Go -- Cold war transition : Europe's decolonization and Eisenhower's system of subordinate elites / Brett Reilly -- Imperial illusions : information infrastructure and the future of U.S. global power / Alfred W. McCoy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 387-451) and index.
LCCN 2012010172
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