American Empire: A Global History. By A.G. Hopkins (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018; pp. 1008. £35);
American Empire in Global History. Edited by Shigeru Akita (London: Routledge, 2022; pp. 254. £130);
Designs on Empire: America’s Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism. By Andrew Priest (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021; pp. 304. £30).