Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Transnational nation : United States history in global perspective since 1789 / Ian Tyrrell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2015Edition: Second editionDescription: 310 pagesISBN:
  • 978-1-137-33854-9 (pbk.)
  • 978-1-137-33853-2 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973 23
Other classification:
  • Kqa
Contents:
Born in the struggles of empires: the American republic in war and revolution, 1789-1815 -- Commerce pervades the world: economic connections and disconnections -- The beacon of improvement: political and social reform -- People in motion: nineteenth-century migration experiences -- Unwilling immigrants and diaspora dreams -- Racial and ethnic frontiers -- America's Civil War and its world historical implications -- How culture travelled: going abroad, c. 1865-1914 -- Building the nation-state in the Progressive Era: the transnational context -- The empire that did not know its name -- The new world order in the era of Woodrow Wilson -- Forces of integration: war and the coming of the American century, 1925-1970 -- Insular impulses: limits on international integration, 1925 to 1970 -- 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
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Bok Almedalsbiblioteket Vuxen Kqa Available 80058668470
Total holds: 0

Original edition published in 2007

Includes bibliographical references and index

Born in the struggles of empires: the American republic in war and revolution, 1789-1815 -- Commerce pervades the world: economic connections and disconnections -- The beacon of improvement: political and social reform -- People in motion: nineteenth-century migration experiences -- Unwilling immigrants and diaspora dreams -- Racial and ethnic frontiers -- America's Civil War and its world historical implications -- How culture travelled: going abroad, c. 1865-1914 -- Building the nation-state in the Progressive Era: the transnational context -- The empire that did not know its name -- The new world order in the era of Woodrow Wilson -- Forces of integration: war and the coming of the American century, 1925-1970 -- Insular impulses: limits on international integration, 1925 to 1970 -- 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

Imported from: lx2.loc.gov:210/LCDB (Do not remove)

Powered by Koha