Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jay Sexton (University of Missouri, Columbia)
The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental, legal, technological, and other veins of analysis, it places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their peoples in the context of a rapidly integrating world. Specific topics addressed in the volume include nation and empire building, inter-Indigenous...
The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth centur...