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Colonial Crucible
Colonial Crucible
Subtitle:
Empire in the Making of the Modern American State
Book Category:
History > United States > General
Editor::
McCoy, Alfred W and Scarano, Francisco A
ISBN 10:
978-0-299-23104-0
ISBN 13:
0-299-23104-6
Price:
USD 29.95
Publication Year:
2009

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University of Wisconsin Press.

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At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Hawaii and the Philippines. Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State reveals how this experiment in direct territorial rule subtly but profoundly shaped U.S. policy and practice--both abroad and, crucially, at home.

 
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"Colonial Crucible should end any discussion as to whether the category 'empire' applies to the United States. In this exceptionally coherent set of essays, the editors make good their subtitle, for this is the most exacting account that one could wish about the way in which empire made America and, in particular, the American state. This book, appropriately, is dedicated to William Appleman Williams, whose early challenge to the complacency of American exceptionalist historiography Colonial Crucible honors and extends."--Marilyn Young, Pacific Historical Review