{"product_id":"race-over-empire-racism-and-u-s-imperialism-1865-1900-paperback","title":"Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric T. L. Love\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerations 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 \u003ci\u003eRace over Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had nearly the opposite effect. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom President Grant's attempt to acquire the Dominican Republic in 1870 to the annexations of Hawaii and the Philippines in 1898, Love demonstrates that the imperialists' relationship with the racist ideologies of the era was antagonistic, not harmonious. In a period marked by Jim Crow, lynching, Chinese exclusion, and immigration restriction, Love argues, no pragmatic politician wanted to place nonwhites at the center of an already controversial project by invoking the concept of the \"white man's burden.\" Furthermore, convictions that defined \"whiteness\" raised great obstacles to imperialist ambitions, particularly when expansionists entered the tropical zone. In lands thought to be too hot for \"white blood,\" white Americans could never be the main beneficiaries of empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges from Love's analysis is a critical reinterpretation of the complex interactions between politics, race, labor, immigration, and foreign relations at the dawn of the American century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Love challenges prevailing notions of race and imperialism by presenting a critical reinterpretation of the complex interactions between politics, race, labor, immigration, and foreign relations at the dawn of the American century. Using memoirs, speeches, newspapers and journals, and governmental and diplomatic papers, diaries and private letters, Love rewrites the history of race and U.S. imperialsim from the end of the Civil War to the annexations that followed the 1898 Spanish-American War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.26 x 6.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782310363424,"sku":"9780807855652","price":68.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/67f5b3515ceeac2ba62ed815cd06e3e8.webp?v=1780567706","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/race-over-empire-racism-and-u-s-imperialism-1865-1900-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}