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America in the World²²

Sven Beckert and Jeremi Suri, Series Editors

This series brings together the work of a new generation of scholars writing the history of “global” America across time periods, methodologies, and fields of analysis. Published books are informed by attention to networks, identities, and processes that transcend the nation-state, and offer a broad geographical and conceptual range of analysis for many diverse themes in American history.

The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism Katy Hull
A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation Roberto Saba
How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and Brazil
For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality Dorothy Sue Cobble
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad
The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era Mark Atwood Lawrence
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s
Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower Mary Bridges
How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial power
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World Don H. Doyle
A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas
Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order Stefan J. Link
A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era
America in the World: A History in Documents since 1898, Revised and Updated Edited by Jeffrey A. Engel, Mark Atwood Lawrence, and Andrew Preston
A wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations—now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to today
Global Development: A Cold War History Sara Lorenzini
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development...
Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside Tore C. Olsson
In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how...
The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War Michael Cotey Morgan
The definitive account of the historic diplomatic agreement that provided a blueprint for ending the Cold War
American Empire: A Global History A. G. Hopkins
A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head
The New Deal: A Global History Kiran Klaus Patel
The first history of the new deal in global context
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics Adam Ewing
A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyond
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century Jürgen Osterhammel
Translated by Patrick Camiller
A panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective Donna R. Gabaccia
A new history exploring U.S. immigration in global context
Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire Ian Tyrrell
Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at...
The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality Thomas Borstelmann
A compelling framework for understanding the importance of the 1970s for America and the world
Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border Rachel St. John
The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico border
Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South Angela Elisabeth Zimmerman
In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the...
The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties Martin Klimke
Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these...
The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order David Ekbladh
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined...