Transnational Nation

Resumen del libro

The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. In this revised and updated new edition, Tyrrell explores the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world.
Contents: Preface / Introduction / 1. Born in the
Struggles of Empires: The American Republic in War
and Revolution, 1789-1815 / 2. Commerce Pervades
the World: Economic Connections and Disconnections
/ 3. The Beacon of Improvement: Political and Social
Reform / 4. People in Motion: Nineteenth-Century
Migration Experiences / 5. Unwilling Immigrants
and Diaspora Dreams / 6. Racial and Ethnic Frontiers
/ 7. Americas Civil War and Its World Historical
Implications / 8. How Culture Travelled: Going Abroad,
c. 1865-1914 / 9. Building the Nation-state in the
Progressive Era: The Transnational Context / 10. The
Empire That Did Not Know Its Name / 11. The New
World Order in the Era of Woodrow Wilson / 12. Forces
of Integration: War and the Coming of the American
Century, 1925-1970 / 13. Insular Impulses: Limits on
International Integration, 1925 to 1970 / 14. From the
1970s to New Globalization: American Transnational
Power and its Limits, 1971-2001 / Epilogue: 'Nothing
Will Ever Be the Same: 9/11 and the Return of History /
Notes / Further Reading / Index