A nation without borders : the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910 /

A nation without borders : the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910 / Steven Hahn.

"In this ambitious story of American imperial expansion and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that will be as enduring as it is controversial. In the near-century from 1830...

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Main Author: Hahn, Steven, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2016]
Series:Penguin history of the United States.
Subjects:
Nationalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Capitalism > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Economic development > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Imperialism > History > 19th century.
Civil war > History > 19th century.
Capitalism > Political aspects.
Civil war.
Diplomatic relations.
Economic development > Political aspects.
Imperialism.
Nationalism.
Slavery > Political aspects.
Territorial expansion.
United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 1815-1861.
United States > Foreign relations > 1861-1865.
United States > Foreign relations > 1865-1921.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Empire and union. Borderlands ; Slavery and political culture ; Markets, money, and class ; Continentalism ; Border wars ; Death of a Union
  • Nation and empire. Birth of a nation ; Defining a nation-state ; Capitalism ; Imperial arms ; Alternative paths ; Reconstructions ; Revolution, war, and the borders of power.

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