| American Empire: A Global History Contributor(s): Hopkins, A. G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691196877 ISBN-13: 9780691196879 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | World - General - History | Europe - General |
| Series: America in the World |
| Physical Information: 2.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (3.00 lbs) 1008 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Taking readers from the colonial era to today, A. G. Hopkins shows how, far from diverging, the United States and Western Europe followed similar trajectories throughout this long period, and how America's dependency on Britain and Europe extended much later into the nineteenth century than previously understood. A sweeping narrative spanning three centuries, American Empire goes beyond the myth of American exceptionalism to place the United States within the wider context of the global historical forces that shaped Western empires and the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hopkins, A. G.: - A. G. Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and former Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local; Globalization in World History; British Imperialism, 1688-2015; and An Economic History of West Africa. He lives in Cambridge, England. |