Bender, Thomas. <br/><br/>
A nation among nations  America's place in world history 
Thomas Bender. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  Hill and Wang  2006. 
 - xii, 368 p.  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-348) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0809072351 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005052808 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History.<br/>United States--History--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E178  / .B428 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973  / B4582n