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 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 obstruc…
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- Full title :American Imperialism and the State, 1893-1921 / Colin D. Moore, University of Hawaii.
Summary
"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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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 286 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781107152441, 1107152445, 9781316606582, 1316606589
- oclc:ocn964933050
- LC Classification:E713
- Dewey Decimal:327.73009/034
Table of Contents
Clerical state colonialism and the annexation of Hawai'i -- Institutional design of the insular empire -- Building a colonial state in the Philippines -- Dollar diplomacy as inconspicuous action -- The colonial state at the height of progressive imperialism -- Consequences and collapse : the empire under Wilson.
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