{"product_id":"race-nation-and-empire-in-american-history-paperback","title":"Race, Nation, and Empire in American History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames T. Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Pratt Guterl\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert G. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire have long framed debates over western expansion, Indian removal, African slavery, Asian immigration, and global economic dominance, and they persist today despite the proliferation of anti-imperialist rhetoric.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn fifteen essays, distinguished historians examine the central role of empire in American race relations, nationalism, and foreign policy from the founding of the United States to the twenty-first century. The essays trace the global expansion of American merchant capital, the rise of an evangelical Christian mission movement, the dispossession and historical erasure of indigenous peoples, the birth of new identities, and the continuous struggles over the place of darker-skinned peoples in a settler society that still fundamentally imagines itself as white. Full of transnational connections and cross-pollinations, of people appearing in unexpected places, the essays are also stories of people being put, quite literally, in their place by the bitter struggles over the boundaries of race and nation. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that the seemingly contradictory processes of boundary crossing and boundary making are and always have been intertwined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003eJames T. Campbell, Brown University\u003cbr\u003eRuth Feldstein, Rutgers University-Newark\u003cbr\u003eKevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003eMatt Garcia, Brown University\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Pratt Guterl, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Hutchinson, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University\u003cbr\u003ePrema Kurien, Syracuse University\u003cbr\u003eRobert G. Lee, Brown University\u003cbr\u003eEric Love, University of Colorado, Boulder\u003cbr\u003eMelani McAlister, George Washington University\u003cbr\u003eJoanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003eLouise M. Newman, University of Florida\u003cbr\u003eVernon J. Williams Jr., Indiana University\u003cbr\u003eNatasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University Carbondale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire have long framed debates over western expansion, Indian removal, African slavery, Asian immigration, and global economic dominance, and they persist today despite the proliferation of anti-imperialist rhetoric.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn fifteen essays, distinguished historians examine the central role of empire in American race relations, nationalism, and foreign policy from the founding of the United States to the twenty-first century. Full of transnational connections and cross-pollinations, of people appearing in unexpected places, the essays are also stories of people being put, quite literally, in their place by the bitter struggles over the boundaries of race and nation. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that the seemingly contradictory processes of boundary crossing and boundary making are and always have been intertwined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors are James T. Campbell, Ruth Feldstein, Kevin K. Gaines, Matt Garcia, Matthew Pratt Guterl, George Hutchinson, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Prema Kurien, Robert G. Lee, Eric Love, Melani McAlister, Joanne Pope Melish, Louise M. Newman, Vernon J. Williams Jr., and Natasha Zaretsky. The editors are James T. Campbell, Matthew Pratt Guterl, and Robert G. 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