Locating the United States in Twentieth-Century World History [Paperback]

In an attempt the challenge the traditional exceptionalist view of American history, Guarneri bridges the gap between American and world history, and furthers a budding relationship between them.In an attempt the challenge the traditional exceptionalist view of American history, Guarneri bridges the gap between American and world history, and furthers a budding relationship between them.ForewordIntroductionThree Perspe ctives: Comparative, Transnational, GlobalComparative HistoryTransnational HistoryGlobal HistoryA Convergence of Perspectives?The United States as a World Power: Patterns of Engagement and InfluenceThe Rise of the United States to PowerGlobal Engagement and National InsularityIdeology, Culture, and U.S. Foreign RelationsReciprocal Impacts: America in the World/The World in AmericaParadoxes of a Global AmericaA Nation among Others: Cohorts and CompetitorsFive Topics for an Integrated U.S. and Global HistoryTransformations of Capitalism in the American CenturyAmerican Technology in a Century of War and DestructionThe United States and the Global Cold WarAmerican Feminism and the Transnational Women's MovementGlobal Environmental Crisis and the National ResponseConclusionNotesCarl J. Guarneri is professor of history at Saint Mary's College of California, where he teaches American and world history. His publications include The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America (1991), America in the World: United States History in Global Context (2007), and (with co-editor James Davis) Teaching American History in a Global Context (2008).