Crossing Empires

Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history the contributors to <i>Crossing Empires</i> de-exceptionalize the American empire placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. With case studies ranging from the 1830s to the late twentieth century the contributors address topics including diplomacy governance anticolonialism labor immigration medicine religion and race. Their transimperial approach-whether exemplified in examinations of U.S. steel corporations partnering with British imperialists to build the Ugandan railway or the U.S. reliance on other empires in its governance of the Philippines-transcends histories of interimperial rivalries and conflicts. In so doing the contributors illuminate the power dynamics of seemingly transnational histories and the imperial origins of contemporary globality.<br><br>Contributors. Ikuko Asaka Oliver Charbonneau Genevieve Clutario Anne L. Foster Julian Go Michel Gobat Julie Greene Kristin L. Hoganson Margaret D. Jacobs Moon-Ho Jung Marc-William Palen Nicole M. Phelps Jay Sexton John Soluri Stephen Tuffnell