dc.contributor.author | Palen, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-12T12:04:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-01-31 | |
dc.description.abstract | This chapter addresses the long-neglected economic cosmopolitan motivations of American anti-imperialists from the Civil War Era to the end of the First World War. It argues that the Anti-Imperialist League (AIL, 1898-1920) leadership’s widespread subscription to free-trade ideas, emanating from the metropolitan heart of the British Empire, underpinned their anti-imperial moralism. The British-born free-trade ideas of the 1830s and 1840s conditioned the institutions and ideas of American anti-imperialism from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, when the U.S. imperial project came to encompass large swaths of the Caribbean and the Asia-Pacific formerly under the sway of the Spanish Empire. Businessmen and nationalists in the former Spanish colonies, desiring to control their own tariff policies and to have free access to the U.S. market, thereupon embodied the broader anti-imperialist critique of U.S. protectionist imperialism. The AIL’s anti-imperialism of free trade, intersecting as it did with the British, Spanish, and U.S. empires, must therefore be understood as a transimperial phenomenon. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | In: Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain, edited by Kristin Hoganson and JaySexton, pp. 159-182. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34724 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Duke University Press | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s), 2020. | |
dc.title | Transimperial Roots of American Anti-Imperialism: The Transatlantic Radicalism of Free Trade, 1846-1920 | en_GB |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
dc.contributor.editor | Hoganson, K | en_GB |
dc.contributor.editor | Sexton, J | en_GB |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781478006947
9781478006039 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available in print from Duke University Press. | en_GB |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-02-14T11:30:35Z | |