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European imperialism had an influence on American policy makers, changing the way they thought about overseas colonization and building a new world order. Prof. Andrew Priest joins the show to discuss his latest book Designs on Empire: America's Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism.


Essential Reading:

Andrew Priest, Designs on Empire: America's Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism (2021).


Recommended Reading:

Mary Ann Heiss, “The Evolution of the Imperial Idea and U.S. National Identity,” Diplomatic History 26 (October 2002): 511-540.


A.G. Hopkins, American Empire: A Global History (2018)


Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (2nd ed. 2009).


Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898 (Thirty-Fifth Anniversary edition, 1998)


Frank Ninkovich, Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865-1890 (2009).


Jay Sexton, The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America (2012).


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