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More copies of this ISBNEndless Empire: Spain's Retreat, Europe's Eclipse, America's Declineby Alfred W Mccoy
Synopses & ReviewsSynopsis:Throughout four millennia of recorded history there has been no end to empire, but instead an endless succession of empires. After five centuries of sustained expansion, the half-dozen European powers that ruled half of humanity collapsed with stunning speed after World War II, creating a hundred emerging nations in Asia and Africa. Amid this imperial transition, the United States became the new global hegemon, dominating this world order with an array of power that closely resembled that of its European predecessors. As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power, including: • erosion of economic and fiscal strength needed for military power on a global scale • misuse of military power through micro-military misadventures • breakdown of alliances among major powers • weakened controls over the subordinate elites critical for any empire’s exercise of global power • insufficient technological innovation to sustain global force projection. About the AuthorAlfred W. McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Policing America’s Empire. Josep M. Fradera is professor of history at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and author of many books on Spanish colonial history, including Colonias para después de un imperio. Stephen Jacobson is associate professor of history at Pompeu Fabra and author of Catalonia’s Advocates. Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Part 1: Introduction Fatal Florescence: Europe's Decolonization and America's Decline Alfred W. McCoy Part 2: Spain's Long Imperial Retreat Eclipse and Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1650–1898 Josep M. Delgado Ribas Empires in Retreat: Spain and Portugal after the Napoleonic Wars Josep M. Fradera Imperial Ambitions in an Era of Decline: Micromilitarism and the Eclipse of the Spanish Empire, 1858–1923 Stephen Jacobson "The Empire Is No Longer a Social Unit": Declining Imperial Expectations and Transatlantic Crises in Metropolitan Spain, 1859–1909 Albert Garcia Balañà Part 3: Imperial Transitions in Latin America and Philippines Facing South: The Liberal Traditions in the Americas Greg Grandin "Alliance Imperialism" and Ango-American Power after 1898: The Origins of Open-Door Internationalism Courtney Johnson Pro-Imperialist Nationalists in Spain's Caribbean Empire Francisco A. Scarano Imperial Transition in the Philippines: The Making of a Colonial Discourse about Spanish Rule María-Dolores Elizalde The Broken Image: The Spanish Empire in the United States after 1898 Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Part 4: British Global Dominion and Decline Information and Intelligence in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Crisis in the British Empire Tony Ballantyne The Fin-de-siècles of Great Britain and the United States: Comparing Two Declining Phases of Global Capitalist Hegemony Kelvin Santiago-Valles The Geopolitics of Decolonization John Darwin Part 5: Complexities and Contradictions of French Decolonization The Absent Empire: The Colonies in French Constitutions Emmanuelle Saada When Did Decolonization End? France and the Ending of Empire Robert Aldrich Decolonizing France: L.S. Senghor's Redemptive Program for African Socialism Gary Wilder Part 6: Subordinate Elites and Imperial Decline in Southeast Asia Informal Empire: The Case of Siam and the Middle East Gregory A. Barton Scientific Patriotism: Medical Science and National Self-Fashioning in Southeast Asia Warwick Anderson and Hans Pols Decolonization and the Roots of Democracy Remco Raben Part 7: Imperial Decline and National Identities Natives Who Were Citizens and Natives Who Were Indígenas in the Portuguese Empire, 1900–1926 Cristina Nogueira da Silva From Subjecthood to Citizenship in South Asia: Migration, Nationality, and the Post-Imperial Global Order Joya Chatterji Part 8: U.S. Global Hegemony The "Three R's" and the Making of a New World Order: Reparation, Reconstruction, Relief, and U.S. Policy, 1945–1952 Greg Bankoff Entangled Empires: The United States and European Imperial Formations in the Mid-twentieth Century Julian Go Cold War Transition: Europe's Decolonization and Eisenhower's System of Subordinate Elites Brett Reilly Imperial Illusions: Information Infrastructure and the Future of U.S. Global Power Alfred McCoy Contributors Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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