Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900

by Eric T. L. Love

Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, benevolent assimilation, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. In Race over Empire , Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had nearly the opposite effect. From President Grant's attempt to acquire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807829005
• ISBN13: 9780807829004
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"