The New Empire

by Lafeber, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780801490484
• ISBN10: 0801490480
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1967-06-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century. Cornell University Press is proud to issue this thirty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new preface by the author.

Table of Contents

I Years of Preparation, 1860-1889	1	(61)
The Roots of the New Empire	3	(3)
The Industrial Revolution	6	(4)
Westward the Course of Empire--and Discontent	10	(7)
The Reaction of American Business	17	(7)
Seward	24	(8)
Grant and Fish	32	(7)
Evarts	39	(7)
Blaine and Frelinghuysen	46	(7)
Bayard and the Pacific	53	(5)
The Beginning of the Modern American Navy	58	(2)
Conclusion: The Period of Preparation	60	(2)
II The Intellectual Formulation	62	(40)
Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier	63	(9)
Josiah Strong and the Missionary Frontier	72	(8)
Brooks Adams, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and the Far Western Frontier	80	(15)
The Ideological Consensus	95	(7)
III The Strategic Formulation	102	(48)
The Assumptions and Objectives	104	(8)
Pan-Americanism: "The Battle for a Market"	112	(9)
The Beginnings of the Modern Battleship Navy	121	(6)
The Haitian Revolution	127	(3)
The Chilean Revolution	130	(6)
The New Empire in the Western Pacific, 1889-1892	136	(4)
A Premature American Frontier in the Pacific	140	(10)
IV The Economic Formulation	150	(47)
The Goldbugs and Foreign Markets	153	(6)
The Tariff of 1894	159	(13)
"Symptoms of Revolution"	172	(4)
The American Business Community: Analysis	176	(10)
The American Business Community: Solutions	186	(11)
V Reaction: Depression Diplomacy, 1893-1895	197	(45)
Hawaii	203	(7)
The Brazilian Revolution of 1894	210	(8)
Replacing the British in Nicaragua	218	(11)
Depression, Expansion, and the Battleship Navy	229	(13)
VI Reaction: The Venezuelan Boundary Crisis of 1895-1896	242	(42)
Lighting the Fuse	243	(16)
The Explosion	259	(11)
Aftermath	270	(14)
VII Reaction: New Problems, New Friends, New Foes	284	(42)
The Cuban Revolution, 1895-1897	285	(15)
The Far East	300	(11)
New Friends	311	(7)
New Foes	318	(8)
VIII Reaction: Approach to War	326	(81)
McKinley	327	(6)
Cuba, 1897 to March 17, 1898	333	(19)
The Far East, 1897 to March, 1898	352	(10)
Hawaii	362	(8)
The American Business Community before the War with Spain, 1897 to February, 1898	370	(9)
The Decision for War	379	(28)
Epilogue	407	(11)
Selected Bibliography	418	(9)
Acknowledgments	427	(2)
Index	429