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dc.contributor.authorPalen, M
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-12T12:04:31Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-31
dc.description.abstractThis 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.citationIn: Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain, edited by Kristin Hoganson and JaySexton, pp. 159-182.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/34724
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s), 2020.
dc.titleTransimperial Roots of American Anti-Imperialism: The Transatlantic Radicalism of Free Trade, 1846-1920en_GB
dc.typeBook chapteren_GB
dc.contributor.editorHoganson, Ken_GB
dc.contributor.editorSexton, Jen_GB
dc.identifier.isbn9781478006947 9781478006039
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available in print from Duke University Press.en_GB
refterms.dateFOA2020-02-14T11:30:35Z


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