by Richard W. Van Alstyne (Author)

Examines the origins, emergence, growth, and peculiar characteristics of the United States as a national state whose policies and goals have been, from the beginning, those of an empire. Bibliogs.

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The Rising American Empire is a study of he origins and the emergence of he United States as a national state and of its subsequent growth pattern. It views the United States relative to other national states, possessing like them clearly recognizable nationalist drives.