American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775-1919

This volume navigates the course of US imperialism between two major wars - the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the Spanish-American War (1898) - both of which saw significant US territorial expansion. However, these conflicts alone do not tell the whole story. Alongside the territorial acquisitions that followed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) this volume's sections also explore the s...