Endless empire : Spain's retreat, Europe's eclipse, America's decline /
edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson.
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.
- xiii, 477 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-451) and index.
Fatal florescence : Europe's decolonization and America's decline / Alfred W. McCoy -- Eclipse and collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1650-1898 / Josep M. Delgado Ribas -- Empires in retreat : Spain and Portugal after the Napoleonic wars / Josep M. Fradera -- Imperial ambitions in an era of decline : micromilitarism and the eclipse of the Spanish Empire, 1858-1923 / Stephen Jacobson -- The empire is no longer a social unit : declining imperial expectations and transatlantic crises in metropolitan Spain, 1859-1909 / Albert Garcia Balañà -- Facing south : how Latin America socialized United States diplomacy / Greg Grandin -- Alliance imperialism and Anglo-American power after 1898 : the origins of open-door internationalism / Courtney Johnson -- Pro-imperialist nationalists at the end of Spain's Caribbean empire / Francisco A. Scarano -- Imperial transition in the Philippines : the making of a colonial discourse about Spanish rule / María Dolores Elizalde -- The broken image : the Spanish Empire in the United States after 1898 / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Information and intelligence in the mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the British Empire / Tony Ballantyne -- The fin de siècles of Great Britain and the United States : comparing two declining phases of global capitalist hegemony / Kelvin Santiago-Valles -- The geopolitics of decolonization / John Darwin -- The absent empire : the colonies in French constitutions / Emmanuelle Saada -- When did decolonization end? France and the ending of empire / Robert Aldrich -- Decolonizing France : L.S. Senghor's redemptive program for African socialism / Gary Wilder -- Informal empire : the case of Siam and the Middle East / Gregory A. Barton -- Scientific patriotism : medical science and national self-fashioning in Southeast Asia / Warwick Anderson and Hans Pols -- Decolonization and the roots of democracy / Remco Raben -- Natives who were citizens and natives who were indigenas in the Portuguese Empire, 1900-1926 / Cristina Nogueira da Silva -- From subjecthood to citizenship in South Asia : migration, nationality, and the post-imperial global order / Joya Charrerji -- The three R's and the making of a new world order : reparation, reconstruction, relief, and U.S. policy, 1945-1952 / Greg Bankoff -- Entangled empires : the United States and European imperial formations in the mid-twentieth century / Julian Go -- Cold war transition : Europe's decolonization and Eisenhower's system of subordinate elites / Brett Reilly -- Imperial illusions : information infrastructure and the future of U.S. global power / Alfred W. McCoy.
"As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power"--Page 4 of cover.