American imperialism and the state, 1893-1921
"How did the acquisition of overseas colonies affect the development of the American state? How did the constitutional system shape the expansion and governance of American empire? American Imperialism and the State offers a new perspective on these questions by recasting American imperial gove...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2017
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Geschichte 1893-1921
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General / bisacsh
> United States
> Foreign relations
> Territorial expansion
> Imperialism
> History
> Colonies
> Nation-building
> Democracy
> Constitutional history
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
> Imperialismus
> Colonial question
> Politics and government
> USA
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "How did the acquisition of overseas colonies affect the development of the American state? How did the constitutional system shape the expansion and governance of American empire? American Imperialism and the State offers a new perspective on these questions by recasting American imperial governance as an episode of state building. Colin Moore argues that the empire was decisively shaped by the efforts of colonial state officials to achieve greater autonomy in the face of congressional obstruction, public indifference, and limitations on administrative capacity. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book focuses principally upon four cases of imperial governance...Hawai'i, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti...to highlight the essential tension between American mass democracy and imperial expansion"... |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 286 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781316606582 978-1-316-60658-2 9781107152441 978-1-107-15244-1 |