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AMERICAN EMPIRE: A GLOBAL VIEW OF AN INSULAR HISTORY (Princeton University Press, September 2017) A. G. Hopkins (Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge, and former Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History, University of Texas at Austin) Summary This study uses the history of globalisation to suggest a new approach to the history of the United States. It outlines three transformative phases of globalisation between 1700 and the present, and traces their evolution through the history of the Western empires that extended the process across the world. Far from diverging, the United States and Western Europe, followed similar trajectories throughout this period. The revolt of the mainland colonies was the product of a crisis that afflicted the imperial military-fiscal states of Europe. The history of the Republic between 1783 and 1865 was a response not to the termination of British influence but to its continued expansion. The creation of an industrial nation-state after 1865 paralleled developments in Western Europe, fostered similar destabilising influences, and found an outlet in imperialism through the acquisition of an insular empire in the Caribbean and Pacific in 1898. The long neglected period of colonial rule that followed reflected the history of the European empires in its ideological justification, economic relations, and administrative principles. After 1945, a profound shift in the character of globalisation brought the age of great territorial empires to an end. This book is aimed at historians of empire who lose sight of the United States after 1783, at historians of the United States who bypass developments in Europe and the wider world before World War II, and at policymakers who need to understand the history of globalisation to avoid carrying the assumptions of a bygone age into the twenty-first century. agh, 22 December 2016