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- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- 9 The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783–1900
- 10 The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919
- 11 The United States and Global Capitalism
- 12 Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition
- 13 The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900
- 14 Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century
- 15 The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
15 - The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century
from Part II - Imperial Structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- 9 The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783–1900
- 10 The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919
- 11 The United States and Global Capitalism
- 12 Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition
- 13 The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900
- 14 Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century
- 15 The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
Summary
In 1900, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York wrote a new foreword to The Winning of the West, his four-volume history of English-speaking settlers’ conquest of North America. Composing his new foreword in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt unambiguously connected that conflict to English-speaking settlers’ colonization of North America beginning in the seventeenth century. “In the year 1898 the United States finished the work begun over a century before by the backwoodsman, and drove the Spaniard outright from the western world,” he wrote. “The backwoodsmen had pushed the Spaniards from the Mississippi, had set up a slaveholding republic in Texas, and had conquered the California gold fields, in the sheer masterful exercise of might.”
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 361 - 384Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022