About this title: This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century. Cornell University Press is proud to issue this thirty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new preface by the author.
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Description: Softcover. Reading copy. A number of pages have underlining and highlighting. Probes beneath the apparently quiet surface of late nineteenth-century American diplomacy and finds that those who shaped American diplomacy believed expanding foreign markets were the the cure for recurring depressions. Includes Index. read more
Description: Softcover. Reading copy. Probes beneath the apparently quiet surface of late nineteenth-century American diplomacy and finds that those who shaped American diplomacy believed expanding foreign markets were the the cure for recurring depressions. Includes Index. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780801490484ISBN:0801490480
Description: Good. 0801490480. Softcovers lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Interior very good, crisp and clean. A good reading/working copy.; 8vo. read more
Edition: 35th Anniversary ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: 1967
ISBN-13:9780801490484ISBN:0801490480
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 457 p. Audience: General/trade. Used trade paperback edition. Book = VG condition read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good+ to Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Yellow highlighting and margin notes in Chapter 1, cover edges worn, creases about 1/2" from front cover corners and lower rear corner. (Standard Book Number 8014-9048-0) 444 pages. read more
Description: Gd. 444pp. 8vo. Softcover. Cornell University Press. American forign policy involvements, particularly in South America, the Caribbean, Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska, & details on American expansion westward and its intellectual, economic, political, military roots & details. Scholarly work. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; GOOD CONDITION TRADE PAPERBACK. Clean, tight and untorn. Minimal underlining and comments towards back of book; notes written on the title page. Cover is rubbed on edges and has a small scrape on the front, lower left and a hole-punch in the upper right corner. Bibliography and Index included. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Date Published: 1998
Description: Very Good. NO DUST JACKET. Little to no edgewear to cover; owner's name and date on end paper; pages clean and crisp; binding tight. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: 1967
ISBN-13:9780801490484ISBN:0801490480
Description: Very Good. Some underlining and highlighting through page 29, otherwise clean and bright within with uncreased spine. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. read more
"Lafeber does well at proving his thesis: that American imperialism was largely a consequence of the industrial revolution and the need for new markets. "The New Empire" was a very calculated move by statesmen from the end of the Civil War until the turn of the century. The book isn't really that interesting in how its written, but maybe it isn't an easy subject matter to do so."
"Provides a solid structural overview of the historical processes that led the United States to becoming an imperial power in the late 1800s. LaFeber does a good job describing how the political climate was shaped within the U.S. by various actors and how their debates and actions helped set the course for the country's future."
"Mehhh - it is an important classic work of Diplomatic History. Lefeber was one of the first scholars to make the argument that far from acquiring empire "in a fit of absent-mindedness," the US expansionist foreign policy in the late 19th century was a natural and explicit extension of its industrialized capitalist economy. In doing so, he highlights American anxieties surrounding the closing of the frontier, the experience of a number of severe economic crises, and the European commercial encroachments in the Western Hemisphere. Clearly written and researched, the New Empire fails to transcend the tedium of the details its argument is embroiled with - interesting characters and unusual events are left as pale shadows and the thread of potentially vivid and gripping narrative almost always is dropped in favor of rather dry analysis. Nonetheless, the work has real value and renewed relevance in light of our current economic crises and a new era of strategic maneuvering in the Far East..."
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