Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 2, 1820–1900

Kristin Hoganson is the Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of several previous books, including Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (2000); Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity 1865-1920 (2007); The Heartland: An American History (2019); and co-editor (with Jay Sexton) of Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain (2020). Jay Sexton is the Kinder Institute Chair of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873 (2005); The Monroe Doctrine: Nation and Empire in Nineteenth-Century America (2011); A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History (2019); as well as several collaborative volumes that probe global dimensions of American history including (with Kristin Hoganson) Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain (2020).

• List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Contributors to Volume II; General Introduction: What is America and the World? Mark Philip Bradley; Introduction to Volume II Jay Sexton and Kristin Hoganson; Part I. Building and Resisting U.S. Empire: 1. The United States between Nation and Empire, 1776–1820 Nicholas Guyatt; 2. Indigenous Nations and the United States Donna L. Akers; 3. Settler Colonialism Jeffrey Ostler; 4. Slavery and Statecraft Robert Bonner; 5. The Mexican-American War Alice L. Baumgartner; 6. Containing Empire: The United States and the World in the Civil War Era Brian Schoen; 7. The United States in an Age of Global Integration, 1865–1897 David Sim; 8. The Wars of 1898 and the US Overseas Empire John Tone; Part II. Imperial Structures: 9. The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783–1900 Max M. Edling; 10. The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919 Eileen P. Scully; 11. The United States and Global Capitalism Dael A. Norwood; 12. Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition Christina Heatherton; 13. The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900 Dirk Bönker; 14. Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century Peter Shulman; 15. The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century Andrew C. Isenberg; Part III. Americans and the World: 16. Foreign Relations Between Indigenous Polities, 1820–1900 Brian DeLay; 17. Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924 Madeline Y. Hsu; 18. The Antislavery International R. J. M. Blackett; 19. American Missionaries in the World Emily Conroy-Krutz; 20. Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism Brian Rouleau; 21. Colonial Intimacies in US Empire Tessa Marie Winkelmann; 22. Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World Daniel Bender; Part IV. Americans in the World: 23. The Changing Geography of Mobility, 1820-1940 Donna R. Gabaccia; 24. The United States and the Greater Caribbean, 1763-1898 Luis Martínez Fernández; 25. Borderlands and Border Crossings Sam Truett; 26. The Liberal North Atlantic Leslie Butler; 27. 'To Enter America from Africa and Africa from America' during the Nineteenth Century Jeannette Eileen Jones; 28. Islamic World Encounters Karine V. Walther; 29. The American Island Empire: US Expansionism in the Pacific and the Caribbean JoAnna Poblete; 30. Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization Ian Tyrrell; Index.

'Let me be clear from the start: this is a wonderful collection….The fluidity of interpretation, conceptual precision, clarity of the exposition, and efficiency of the analysis is excellent…. It is a stimulating and engaging volume, full of interest, insight, and impressive synthesis.' Stephen Tuffnell, H-Diplo