TY - BOOK AU - Bender,Thomas TI - A nation among nations: America's place in world history SN - 0809072351 AV - E178 .B428 2006 U1 - 973 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Hill and Wang KW - United States KW - History KW - Local KW - Philosophy N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052808-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052808-d.html ER -