Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (repost)
Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State By Alfred W. McCoy, Francisco A. Scarano
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2009 | 688 Pages | ISBN: 0299231046 | PDF | 9 MB
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2009 | 688 Pages | ISBN: 0299231046 | PDF | 9 MB
At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Hawaii and the Philippines. Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State reveals how this experiment in direct territorial rule subtly but profoundly shaped U.S. policy and practice—both abroad and, crucially, at home. Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano, the essays in this volume show how the challenge of ruling such far-flung territories strained the U.S. state to its limits, creating both the need and the opportunity for bold social experiments not yet possible within the United States itself. Plunging Washington’s rudimentary bureaucracy into the white heat of nationalist revolution and imperial rivalry, colonialism was a crucible of change in American statecraft.