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A nation among nations : America's place in world history / / Thomas Bender.   Author:  Bender, Thomas. Title:  A nation among nations : America's place in world history / / Thomas Bender. Edition:  1st ed. Publisher:  New York : Hill and Wang, 2006. Description:  xii, 368 p. ; 24 cm. Related Elec. Res.:  Contributor biographical information  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052808-b.html Publisher description  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052808-d.html Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-348) and index. Contents:  1. The ocean world and the beginnings of American history -- The island world -- Going global -- People from the sea -- Atlantic Creoles -- The plantation complex -- 2. The "Great War" and the American Revolution -- Global empires -- A continuous war, 1754-1783 -- 1783 -- The age of Atlantic revolutions -- A new nation in a dangerous world -- Foreign affairs and partisan politics -- A new nationalism -- 3. Freedom in an age of nation-making -- 1848 -- The birth of new nations -- The federative crisis -- Territoriality and liberal nationalism -- The republican party -- Remembering nationalism and forgetting liberalism -- 4. An empire among empires -- Ahab and empire -- Being the whale -- The rhetoric of empire -- A global strategy -- 1898 -- Revolution and empire -- Making the world safe for empire -- 5. The industrial world and the transformation of liberalism -- The two revolutions and social citizenship -- Paths away from Laissez-Faire -- Professional risk and the moral imagination -- The reform international and the World Wide Web -- Common challenges and local politics -- 6. Global history and America today. Local Note:  NMAH copy 39088013362462 purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Subject:  United States -- History. United States -- History -- Philosophy. Catalog Source No.:  (OCoLC)ocm61694880 ISBN:  0809095270 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780809095278 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0809072351 9780809072354 Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   E178 .B428 2006 American History, National Museum of 39088013362462 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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