02256nam a2200313Ia 4500 281554 OCoLC 20160527200217.0 050915s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng 2005052808 0809072351 (OCoLC)61694880 DLC DLC BAKER C#P MNY YDXCP OCLCQ BTCTA NTE CRH n-us--- PUXA E178 .B428 2006 973 B4582n 22 Bender, Thomas. Local 59717 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. Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-348) and index. 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. United States History. Local 182913 United States History Philosophy. Local 182913 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 202795 202795 0 0 ddc 0 973_000000000000000_B4582N 0 evl 295655 10 10 1 2016-05-27 Amazon 11.25 408394 0 973 B4582n 80000002321365 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:281554 6