Expansionism

About: Expansionism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 979 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11169 citations.

Italian fascism, 1919-1945

Abstract: Acknowledgement - PART 1 THE CONQUEST OF POWER, 1919-1929 - The Postwar Crisis and the Rise of Fascism, 1919-1922 - Between 'Normalization' and 'Revolution', 1922-1925 - The Construction of the 'Totalitarian' State, 1925-1929 - PART 2 THE FASCIST REGIME, 1929-1936 - The Years of the Great Depression, 1929-1934 - The Creation of the Fascist Empire, 1935-1936 - PART 3 FASCIST EXPANSIONISM AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1936-1943 - The Axis Connection and the 'Fascistization of Italian Society, 1936-1940 - Fascist Italy at War, 1940-1943 - Epilogue: The Italian Social Republic, 1943-1945 - Footnotes - Map - Select Bibliography

No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776

Abstract: Dismantling the myths of United States isolationism and exceptionalism, No Higher Law is a sweeping history and analysis of American policy toward the Western Hemisphere and Latin America from independence to the present. From the nation's earliest days, argues Brian Loveman, U.S. leaders viewed and treated Latin America as a crucible in which to test foreign policy and from which to expand American global influence. Loveman demonstrates how the main doctrines and policies adopted for the Western Hemisphere were exported, with modifications, to other world regions as the United States pursued its self-defined global mission. No Higher Law reveals the interplay of domestic politics and international circumstances that shaped key American foreign policies from U.S. independence to the first decade of the twenty-first century. This revisionist view considers the impact of slavery, racism, ethnic cleansing against Native Americans, debates on immigration, trade and tariffs, the historical growth of the military-industrial complex, and political corruption as critical dimensions of American politics and foreign policy. Concluding with an epilogue on the Obama administration, Loveman weaves together the complex history of U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy to achieve a broader historical understanding of American expansionism, militarism, imperialism, and global ambitions as well as novel insights into the challenges facing American policymakers at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Becoming Turk the Rajput Way: Conversion and Identity in an Indian Warrior Narrative

Abstract: The Kyamkhanis were a small Indian Muslim community who flourished in northern Rajasthan from c. 1450 to 1730. This article examines memories of the Kyamkhani past recorded in a seventeenth-century history of the ruling lineage, as a case study of both the process of Islamic expansionism in South Asia and the self-identity of rural Muslim gentry. While celebrating the ancestor who had converted to Islam generations earlier, the Kyamkhanis also represented themselves as local warriors of the Rajput class, an affiliation that is considered exclusively Hindu in India today. Their history was written in a local literary language, Braj Bhasa, rather than in the more cosmopolitan Persian that was widely used by Muslim elites at the time. The Kyamkhanis of the early modern era thus negotiated multiple social and cultural spheres, simultaneously participating in the local/vernacular as well as global/cosmopolitan arenas.

The Italian Navy and Fascist expansionism, 1935-40

Abstract: Correra della serra - interview with Robert Mallett (in Italian) Warships - Winter 99 - an article penned by robert Mallett - see files also "This well-argued and researched book has caused a stir in Italy" Review section of Warships, Winter 99 " this is a well written and widely researched monograph" - Choice, May 1999 Journal of Military History, Vol 64, No 2, April 2000 "Mallett has well researched naval planning in Italian naval archives. However, on the whole the work seems incomlete, its archival reach limited, its assertions at times inadequately documented, and contrary evidence slighted. Nonetheless, Mallett"s study enhances the debate that it does not resolve." The Marnier"s Mirror "his meticulous research among sources in two languages has produced an admirable work that makes a quantum leap in the English language understanding of Italy"s position. This book has a very definate place on the shelves of anyone whose interests cover the diplomatice or maritime history of the period

Germany and Indian Revolution, 1914-18:

Abstract: One of the twentieth century's most characteristic contributions to international relations in war and 'peace' has been the use of dissident groups within states or empires to weaken real or potential enemies. It is no new phenomenon; for nearly sixty years the Bourbon monarchy supported risings by Scottish and Irish Jacobites hoping that they would weaken or divert British power. Nonetheless, as recent analysis of Soviet support for Pathan and Baluchi separatists in Pakistan has again emphasised, foreign-backed subversion is a seemingly inescapable feature of late twentieth century life.1 The technique was first systematically developed during the first world war. In the Middle East Britain profitably allied herself with Arab nationalist discontent with Ottoman rule and later, together with the United States, encouraged the dissident minorities of Austria-Hungary. Some years ago, however, the American Chinese historian, Robert North, while studying the career of the Indian communist, M.N. Roy, in China in the 1920s, concluded that the real pioneer of revolutionary subversion had been Imperial Germany. His view would find sympathy in the school of historians which sees aggressive expansionism as the characteristic feature of German foreign policy in the period up to 1918. Certainly, Fritz Fischer, in Germany's Aims In the First World War, reviewed at some length German attempts to foster revolution in different parts of the British, French and Russian empires. The best known examples of this aspect of German enterprise have been their curiously lukewarm relationship with Irish nationalism in the person of Roger Casement and their more successful intrigues in Russia, but in many ways the most instructive study is that of their attempts to assist revolutionary nationalists in India. This is partly because of the