• General editor's introduction; Preface; 1. Springboards and strategies; 2. The Second Industrial Revolution at home and abroad; 3. Race for empire; 4. 'America will take this continent in hand alone'; 5. Crossing the oceans; 6. 1893–1896: Chaos and crises; 7. The empire of 1898 - and upheaval; 8. Pacific empire - and upheaval; 9. Theodore Roosevelt: conservative as revolutionary; 10. William Howard taft and the age of revolution; Conclusion: the 1865–1913 era restated; Bibliographic essay; Index; Maps.

'LaFeber's new book The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913, is important for one central reason: the debut of an audacious new thesis on the era of modernisation and empire … LaFeber's thesis is significant in constitutional s well as diplomatic history. This is daring business … [His] book is a breeze to read - stimulating, lively, fresh … sometimes rolling with rhetorical power. As his books on the Panama Canal and Central America, he writes informatively and easily about the states and societies with which the United States dealt.' The Journal of American-East Asian Relations

• General editor's introduction; Preface; 1. Springboards and strategies; 2. The Second Industrial Revolution at home and abroad; 3. Race for empire; 4. 'America will take this continent in hand alone'; 5. Crossing the oceans; 6. 1893–1896: Chaos and crises; 7. The empire of 1898 - and upheaval; 8. Pacific empire - and upheaval; 9. Theodore Roosevelt: conservative as revolutionary; 10. William Howard taft and the age of revolution; Conclusion: the 1865–1913 era restated; Bibliographic essay; Index; Maps.

'LaFeber's new book The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913, is important for one central reason: the debut of an audacious new thesis on the era of modernisation and empire … LaFeber's thesis is significant in constitutional s well as diplomatic history. This is daring business … [His] book is a breeze to read - stimulating, lively, fresh … sometimes rolling with rhetorical power. As his books on the Panama Canal and Central America, he writes informatively and easily about the states and societies with which the United States dealt.' The Journal of American-East Asian Relations

• General editor's introduction; Preface; 1. Springboards and strategies; 2. The Second Industrial Revolution at home and abroad; 3. Race for empire; 4. 'America will take this continent in hand alone'; 5. Crossing the oceans; 6. 1893–1896: Chaos and crises; 7. The empire of 1898 - and upheaval; 8. Pacific empire - and upheaval; 9. Theodore Roosevelt: conservative as revolutionary; 10. William Howard taft and the age of revolution; Conclusion: the 1865–1913 era restated; Bibliographic essay; Index; Maps.

'LaFeber's new book The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913, is important for one central reason: the debut of an audacious new thesis on the era of modernisation and empire … LaFeber's thesis is significant in constitutional s well as diplomatic history. This is daring business … [His] book is a breeze to read - stimulating, lively, fresh … sometimes rolling with rhetorical power. As his books on the Panama Canal and Central America, he writes informatively and easily about the states and societies with which the United States dealt.' The Journal of American-East Asian Relations