America in the World: United States History in Global Context

by Guarneri, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780072541151
• ISBN10: 0072541156
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

This text examines how larger global processes have had a role in each stage of American development, how this country's experiences were shared by people elsewhere, and how America's growing influence ultimately changed the world. By examining American history through a global lens, Carl Guarneri creates a framework that situates specific American events within the larger realm of world history.

Table of Contents

Note from the Series Editors Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: American History as if the World Mattered (and Vice Versa)

American History in Global Perspective

World History with America Included

The Debate over American Exceptionalism

Beyond Exceptionalism: Settler Societies, Global Economic Systems, and Geopolitics

The New World Frontier in North America

Worlds Collide: Native American and European

Societies in the Age of Exploration

Comparative Perspectives on British

Colonialism Ecological Imperialism and the Post-Columbian Exchange

The British Colonies in the Atlantic World

The Atlantic System, the Slave Trade, and Colonial Society

The Great Frontier and the Great Divergence: America's Impact on Europe

The 'Shot Heard ‘Round the (Atlantic) World': The American Revolution

Making A Nation The United States as a New Nation

National Survival on Europe's Periphery

Frontier Expansion in Global

Context Comparative

Views of Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation

Industrializing the Nation

The American Industrial Revolution

A Nation of Immigrants in a World of Migrants

The Debate over Socialism in the United States

The Rise of the Welfare State

The Course of American Empire

The Course of American Empire

America's Overseas Empire in Comparative

Perspective Toward an American Century: World Wars and Global Engagement

Challenges of Empire The Cold War as Global Rivalry

Postwar American Trends in Global

Setting Globalization and American Empire

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