Compulsory empire: imperial histories of globalisation and the globalisation of the United States
June 2024
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Journal article
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English Historical Review
<p><i>American Empire: A Global History</i>. By A.G. Hopkins (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018; pp. 1008. £35);</p>
<p><i>American Empire in Global History</i>. Edited by Shigeru Akita (London: Routledge, 2022; pp. 254. £130);</p>
<p><i>Designs on Empire: America’s Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism</i>. By Andrew Priest (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021; pp. 304. £30).</p>
Review of: "The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge. By Tamson Pietsch. Pp. 320. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2023. $40 (Cloth). ISBN 9780226825168."
December 2023
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Journal article
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British Journal of Educational Studies
Review of: "A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era. By Andrew F. Lang (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2021) 568 pp. $34.95"
December 2021
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Journal article
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History
heritage and archaeology, justice and strong institutions
Made in Britain Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America
September 2020
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Book
With deep research and vivid detail, Made in Britain uncovers this hidden story and presents a bold new perspective on the nineteenth-century cross-Atlantic relations.
Crossing the rift: American steel and colonial labor in Britain's East Africa Protectorate
January 2020
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Chapter
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Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain
Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context.
SBTMR, engineering, Africa, labour history, global history
‘The international Siamese twins’: the iconography of Anglo-American inter-imperialism
October 2019
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Chapter
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Comic empires: Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art
Colin D. Moore. American Imperialism and the State, 1893–1921; Nathan Jessen. Populism and Imperialism: Politics, Culture, and Foreign Policy in the American West, 1890–1900.
February 2019
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Journal article
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The American Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Engineering Gold Rushes: Engineers and the Mechanics of Global Connectivity
October 2018
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Chapter
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A Global History of Gold Rushes
SBTMR
Seeking a Global History of Gold
October 2018
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Chapter
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A Global History of Gold Rushes
SBTMR
A Global History of Gold Rushes
October 2018
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Edited book
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the nostalgic rush to Alaska, fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated global circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to examine the history of these nineteenth century gold rushes in global perspective.
Global History, Gold, Environmental History, Imperialism, Pacific World, Whiteness, Sinophobia, History of Technology
Business in the borderlands: American trade in the South African marketplace, 1871–1902
April 2018
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Chapter
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Imagining Britain's Economic Future, c.1800-1975: Trade, Consumerism and Global Markets
This chapter argues that the American diaspora anchored the USA’s commercial relationship with Southern Africa between 1871 and 1902. The American diaspora imagined a ‘new west’ in South Africa and worked alongside US consuls to shape economic behaviour by directing American goods to the region’s growing cities and booming mines. Central to this process was information on market prices and opportunities supplied by American consuls. As a result of their efforts, the USA became the Cape Colony’s largest trading partner after Great Britain. Closer attention to US–Southern African trade reveals that the USA dominated trade only in select sectors and that US consuls struggled to understand the complex global commodity chains American goods passed along before they reached Southern African markets.
consuls, commodity chains, Boer War , US Empire, American migration
Addressing America: George Washington’s farewell and the making of national culture, politics, and diplomacy, 1796-1852
March 2016
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Internet publication
In February 1862, the Pennsylvanian Republican John W. Forney read aloud George Washington’s ‘Farewell Address’ on the Senate Floor. The occasion? It was the 130th anniversary of the first President’s birth. Each year the United States Senate continues to observe Washington’s Birthday in the same manner, alternating between speakers from each party. In 2012, this custom was observed for the 150th time, but the reader, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), cut a lonely figure...
American foreign relations, SBTMR, statecraft, nationalism, George Washington
Review of Andrew Priest “Thinking about empire: the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, Spanish colonialism and the Ten Years’ War in Cuba.”
January 2016
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Internet publication
Ulysses S. Grant, inter-imperialism, US imperialism, Cuban rebellion, SBTMR
Expatriate foreign relations: Britain's American community and transnational approaches to the U.S. Civil War
August 2015
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Journal article
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Diplomatic History
This article proposes that U.S. foreign relations in the nineteenth century were structured around the transnational interconnections of American communities overseas. The diplomacy of Britain’s American community during the Civil War refocuses historian’s attention on the offshore institutions and civic life that conditioned American public diplomacy throughout the nineteenth century.
Being American in Europe, 1750-1860
March 2015
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Other
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Reviews in American History
Engineering inter-imperialism: American miners and the transformation of global mining, 1871-1910
March 2015
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Journal article
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Journal of Global History
globalization, inter-imperialism, mining engineers, race management, South Africa
Passage to America: Celebrated European Visitors in Search of the American Adventure
March 2015
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Other
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Reviews in American History
Book review: The other Americans in Paris: businessmen, countesses, wayward youth, 1880-1941
January 2015
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Other
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Anglo-American Inter-Imperialism: US Expansion and the British World, c.1865-1914
September 2014
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Journal article
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Britain and the World
This article examines the overlooked synergy between American economic expansion and British imperialism in the late nineteenth century. The established scholarship on American empire in this period focuses on the domestic origins of US expansion into the markets of the Western Hemisphere. This article contends, however, that informal American expansion was shaped by external collaborations with the British World. Between 1865 and 1914, an American “colony” of expatriate businessmen emerged in London that is central to this study. The American “colony” integrated itself within the social and economic networks upon which British imperialism depended and mediated new inter-imperial collaborations. Migrants, knowledge, and investment flowed through these intersections, shaping the geography of American expansion around the global footprint of the British World. A snapshot of the pharmaceutical firm Burroughs Wellcome & Co. spotlights these processes, highlighting the mutual imbrications of the British and American empires and the inter-imperial reciprocities sustaining late-nineteenth century globalisation.
Book review: Locating the English diaspora, 1500–2010
July 2014
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Other
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Journal of Transatlantic Studies
Sovereignty Transformed: U.S.-Habsburg Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference
March 2014
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Internet publication
Review of Nicole Phelps' Sovereignty Transformed: U.S.-Habsburg Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference.
U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S.-Habsburg Relations, Diplomacy, Sovereignty
Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain.
January 2014
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Other
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HISTORY
‘For our necessities and luxuries in life, for the employment of our people, for our revenue, for our very position in the world as a nation,’ observed the Earl of Clarendon, President of the Board of Trade, in 1846, ‘we are indebted to the production of slave labour’ (p. 98). Like Clarendon, Britons struggled throughout Victoria's reign to resolve the dilemma of whether Britain could, or even should, isolate itself from thriving slave systems around the globe. What form would British anti-slavery take after British colonial emancipation? What did being an anti-slavery nation dictate for an anti-slavery state? More importantly, what role would anti-slavery play in the British imperial world system? These questions, and their manifold legacies, are the focus of Richard Huzzey's compelling account of British Anti-Slavery.
America and the World
January 2013
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Other
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Journal of American Studies
Envisioning the Nation: The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture
December 2012
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Other
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AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY HISTORY
Before a thronging crowd at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis, Henry Adams ‘professed the religion of World’s Fairs’ and confessed to his fellow ‘pilgrims’ an ‘optimistic dream of future strength in American expression.’ World’s Fairs exerted powerful cultural influences upon mass audiences in the United States. Nearly one hundred million American citizens visited international expositions held in a dozen American cities between 1876 and 1915. The nationalizing spectacle of nineteenth and early twentieth century World’s Fairs upon millions of individual Americans and the formation of national culture and memory are at the heart of Astrid Böger’s inquiries in Envisioning the Nation.
“Uncle Sam is to be Sacrificed”: Anglophobia in Late Nineteenth-Century Politics and Culture
March 2011
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Journal article
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American Nineteenth Century History
Book review: Manifesting America: the imperial construction of US national space
