U.S. History - Imperilism The United States, like many industrial nations, enter
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U.S. History - Imperilism
The United States, like many industrial nations, entered into a new race for colonies at the end of the nineteenth century (the Age of High Imperialism). The Europeans squared off in a Scramble for Africa, the United States and Japan were vying in the Pacific, and everyone was carving up spheres of influence in Asia. While the United States did create a formal empire and expand its informal empire over Latin America during this time, the concept of American Empire stirred quite a bit of debate. Why do you think this was? Should we have developed an empire? (for this latter, do not use presentist arguments - use the reasoning of the time to explain your answer).
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Thomas Jefferson, in the 1790s, awaited the fall of the Spanish Empire until
the population can be sufficiently advanced to gain it from them piece by piece.
In the late 19th century, foreign territories such as Hawaii and Latin America were sought after by the United States.
The American government now held the power to both criticize and occupy
these nations if they were deemed to be unstable.
The American government now held the power to both criticize and occupy these nations if they were deemed to be unstable.
since history is a subject that is pursued ostensibly to understand the past, not how the present can make use of it; one cannot eat the knowledge of the past or wear it;
it will not help replace your faulty heart valve, or cause carbon to be mysteriously sequestered.
Misuses of the past are legion. One of these falsifications is the idea that the United States hasn’t had an empire, or that the US is fundamentally anti-colonial in its temper as a nation.
ABOUT US empire, an official transcript in the following modified form: “We don’t seek empire.” “We’re not imperialistic. We never have been. I can’t imagine why you’d even ask the question.”
Ignorance of the United States’ deeply entrenched imperial experiences from Rumsfeld and others indicates dishonesty, ignorance, or faulty reasoning,
The error starts with a legalistic definition of empire
That is, empire is defined as formal, political occupation of territory and
control of peoples who are subjects, not potential or actual citizens.
European empires are said to have had such arrangements
routinely, and the United States has not. This in itself is erroneous as fact.
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