Description: This volume examines US empire-building and other aspects of its relationship with the world in the nineteenth century.
Brief description: Kristin Hoganson is the Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of several previous books, including Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (2000); Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity 1865-1920 (2007); The Heartland: An American History (2019); and co-editor (with Jay Sexton) of Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain (2020).
Review Quotes: 'Let me be clear from the start: this is a wonderful collection....The fluidity of interpretation, conceptual precision, clarity of the exposition, and efficiency of the analysis is excellent.... It is a stimulating and engaging volume, full of interest, insight, and impressive synthesis.' Stephen Tuffnell, H-Diplo