Past Imperfect: Alternative Essays in American History. from reconstruction to the presentBlanche Wiesen Cook, Alice Kessler-Harris, Ronald Radosh Knopf, 1973 - 352 pages |
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Page 82
... leading businessmen were among the foremost advocates of this philosophy , and pointed repeatedly to Latin America and Asia as promising " the most glittering market opportunities for U.S. manufactures " -markets needed to " absorb ...
... leading businessmen were among the foremost advocates of this philosophy , and pointed repeatedly to Latin America and Asia as promising " the most glittering market opportunities for U.S. manufactures " -markets needed to " absorb ...
Page 84
... leading spokesman for American business , wrote in a " confidential " letter to William R. Day , Assistant Secretary of State : Above all , let me say in conclusion I would send a commercial attaché to the Orient to operate in China and ...
... leading spokesman for American business , wrote in a " confidential " letter to William R. Day , Assistant Secretary of State : Above all , let me say in conclusion I would send a commercial attaché to the Orient to operate in China and ...
Page 214
... leading Republican in Congress , called the Pacific " the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter . " Seward set out as Senator and as Lincoln's Secretary of State to maintain by force an open door for American interests ...
... leading Republican in Congress , called the Pacific " the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter . " Seward set out as Senator and as Lincoln's Secretary of State to maintain by force an open door for American interests ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Origins of American Imperialism | 65 |
The Seventh Power ERNEST R MAY 68 Why the United States Went | 92 |
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