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American Empire in Global History, edited by S. Akita

American Empire in Global History, edited by S. Akita S. Akita, ed., American Empire in Global History. Abingdon, Oxon, and New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-032-18668-9. 244 pages, hardcover, $160.This book comprises eight chapters inspired by A. G. Hopkins’ magnum opus, American Empire: A Global History. These chapters, which are divided into three parts, are preceded by the editor’s introduction and followed by a response from Hopkins.Hopkins’ book is highly ambitious and succeeds in placing the American Empire after the Spanish-American War in the broad context of the Western empires by emphasizing the importance of its nature as a formal empire with insular colonial possessions. The book also casts a fresh light on America’s relations with Britain in the nineteenth century by focusing on America’s continued economic dependence on its former mother country until 1898 and the war with Spain.In this book, with a few exceptions, the authors more or less accept Hopkins’ arguments and support or supplement them with original research. The chapter by Max M. Edling tactfully analyzes the factors feeding the United States’ dynamic expansion within North America, with 1898 seen as the year that US expansion went beyond the continent and became properly imperial. This distinction, and the year as dividing point, is closely http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian review of World Histories Brill

American Empire in Global History, edited by S. Akita

Kibata, Yoichi
Asian review of World Histories , Volume 11 (1): 3 – Jan 26, 2023
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S. Akita, ed., American Empire in Global History. Abingdon, Oxon, and New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-032-18668-9. 244 pages, hardcover, $160.This book comprises eight chapters inspired by A. G. Hopkins’ magnum opus, American Empire: A Global History. These chapters, which are divided into three parts, are preceded by the editor’s introduction and followed by a response from Hopkins.Hopkins’ book is highly ambitious and succeeds in placing the American Empire after the Spanish-American War in the broad context of the Western empires by emphasizing the importance of its nature as a formal empire with insular colonial possessions. The book also casts a fresh light on America’s relations with Britain in the nineteenth century by focusing on America’s continued economic dependence on its former mother country until 1898 and the war with Spain.In this book, with a few exceptions, the authors more or less accept Hopkins’ arguments and support or supplement them with original research. The chapter by Max M. Edling tactfully analyzes the factors feeding the United States’ dynamic expansion within North America, with 1898 seen as the year that US expansion went beyond the continent and became properly imperial. This distinction, and the year as dividing point, is closely

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Published: Jan 26, 2023

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