TY - BOOK AU - Bender,Thomas TI - A nation among nations: America's place in world history SN - 0809095270 AV - E 178 BEN 428 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Hill an Wang KW - Philosophy KW - Amerikabild N1 - Includes index; 1. The ocean world and the beginnings of American history -- The island world -- Going global -- People from the sea -- Atlantic Creoles -- The plantation complex -- 2. The "Great War" and the American Revolution -- Global empires -- A continuous war, 1754-1783 -- 1783 -- The age of Atlantic revolutions -- A new nation in a dangerous world -- Foreign affairs and partisan politics -- A new nationalism -- 3. Freedom in an age of nation-making -- 1848 -- The birth of new nations -- The federative crisis -- Territoriality and liberal nationalism -- The republican party -- Remembering nationalism and forgetting liberalism -- 4. An empire among empires -- Ahab and empire -- Being the whale -- The rhetoric of empire -- A global strategy -- 1898 -- Revolution and empire -- Making the world safe for empire -- 5. The industrial world and the transformation of liberalism -- The two revolutions and social citizenship -- Paths away from Laissez-Faire -- Professional risk and the moral imagination -- The reform international and the World Wide Web -- Common challenges and local politics -- 6. Global history and America today N2 - Contends that American history must be placed in a global context, explaining that the obstacles being faced by the United States have been overcome in the past by other countries whose examples can impart powerful lessons UR - http://digitool.hbz-nrw.de:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2092824&custom_att_2=simple_viewer UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014929311&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=014929311&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=14139 UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21329 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052808-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052808-d.html UR - http://digitool.hbz-nrw.de:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2092824&custom%5Fatt%5F2=simple%5Fviewer UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052808-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005052808-d.html UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=014929311&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -