Transnational Nation

Ian Tyrrell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His previous publications include Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America (2014).

"An important book, pleasingly brought up to date, written in a clear way." - Adam I. P. Smith, University College London, UK "An innovative way to understand U.S. development." - Chester J. Pach, Ohio University, USA Praise for previous edition: "Transnational Nation will help world historians to understand better the vexed and conflicted history of the US relationship to global engagement. And, while the specific American combination of global pull and national insularity may be unique, its broad outlines are not, as the histories of China, Japan, Russia, or England would show. Without intending to, Transnational Nation provides an attractive template for producing a globally-informed history of any modern great power." - Journal of Global History

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Born in the Struggles of Empires: The American Republic in War and Revolution, 1789-18152. Commerce Pervades the World: Economic Connections and Disconnections3. The Beacon of Improvement: Political and Social Reform4. People in Motion: Nineteenth-Century Migration Experiences5. Unwilling Immigrants and Diaspora Dreams6. Racial and Ethnic Frontiers7. America's Civil War and Its World Historical Implications8. How Culture Travelled: Going Abroad, c. 1865-19149. Building the Nation-state in the Progressive Era: The Transnational Context10. The Empire That Did Not Know Its Name11. The New World Order in the Era of Woodrow Wilson12. Forces of Integration: War and the Coming of the American Century, 1925-197013. Insular Impulses: Limits on International Integration, 1925 to 197014. From the 1970s to New Globalization: American Transnational Power and its Limits, 1971-2001Epilogue: "Nothing Will Ever Be the Same": 9/11 and the Return of HistoryNotesFurther ReadingIndex.