Piero Gleijeses is Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013), which won the AHA Friedrich Katz Prize, and Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 (2002), which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Drawing on international research in multiple languages, Piero Gleijeses brilliantly illuminates the rise of the United States to global power in a contest of rival empires. With clear purpose and lucid writing, America's Road to Empire ranges from the American's initial anti-colonial struggle for independence to the later conquest of distant dominions. Combining aggression, fear, and self-righteousness, American leaders pursued the fantasy of perfect security through expansion across a continent and then an ocean.

• 1. Independence 2. The Federalist Era 3. Jefferson’s First Term 4. Jefferson’s Second Term 5. Clashing with Britain 6. The Limits of Sympathy: The United States and the Independence of Latin America 7. Indian Removal: A “Sickening Mass of Putrefaction.” 8. Manifest Destiny 9. The 1850s and the Civil War 10. After Appomattox 11. Cuba and the Philippines 12. Protective Imperialism 13. The Far East 14. Conclusion Bibliography

Piero Gleijeses is Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013), which won the AHA Friedrich Katz Prize, and Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 (2002), which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Drawing on international research in multiple languages, Piero Gleijeses brilliantly illuminates the rise of the United States to global power in a contest of rival empires. With clear purpose and lucid writing, America's Road to Empire ranges from the American's initial anti-colonial struggle for independence to the later conquest of distant dominions. Combining aggression, fear, and self-righteousness, American leaders pursued the fantasy of perfect security through expansion across a continent and then an ocean.

• 1. Independence 2. The Federalist Era 3. Jefferson’s First Term 4. Jefferson’s Second Term 5. Clashing with Britain 6. The Limits of Sympathy: The United States and the Independence of Latin America 7. Indian Removal: A “Sickening Mass of Putrefaction.” 8. Manifest Destiny 9. The 1850s and the Civil War 10. After Appomattox 11. Cuba and the Philippines 12. Protective Imperialism 13. The Far East 14. Conclusion Bibliography

Piero Gleijeses is Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013), which won the AHA Friedrich Katz Prize, and Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 (2002), which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Drawing on international research in multiple languages, Piero Gleijeses brilliantly illuminates the rise of the United States to global power in a contest of rival empires. With clear purpose and lucid writing, America's Road to Empire ranges from the American's initial anti-colonial struggle for independence to the later conquest of distant dominions. Combining aggression, fear, and self-righteousness, American leaders pursued the fantasy of perfect security through expansion across a continent and then an ocean.

• 1. Independence 2. The Federalist Era 3. Jefferson’s First Term 4. Jefferson’s Second Term 5. Clashing with Britain 6. The Limits of Sympathy: The United States and the Independence of Latin America 7. Indian Removal: A “Sickening Mass of Putrefaction.” 8. Manifest Destiny 9. The 1850s and the Civil War 10. After Appomattox 11. Cuba and the Philippines 12. Protective Imperialism 13. The Far East 14. Conclusion Bibliography