Expansionism

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

Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871

Abstract: Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Sixteenth-Century Background 2. Creating New Frontiers, 1600-74 3. Britain, France and the Natives, 1674-1715 4. Multiple Currents, 1715-53 5. War for Dominance, 1754-64 6. Britain Triumphant to America Independent, 1765-76 7. Britain Defeated, 1775-83 8. Flexing Muscles, 1783-1811 9. Florida, But Not Canada: From the War of 1812 to the Monroe Doctrine, 1812-1823 10. Expansionism and its Problems, 1823-43 11. From the Oregon Question to the Gadsden Purchase, 1844-53 12. A Great Power in the Making? America, 1853-61 13. America Divided, 1861-63 14. Winning the War, 1863-5 15. Settling the North American Question, 1865-71 16. Postscript, 1871-2010 Conclusions Notes Index

European Southeast Asia Encounters with Islamic Expansionism, circa 1500–1700: Comparative Case Studies of Banten, Ayutthaya, and Banjarmasin in the Wider Indian Ocean Context

Abstract: This paper addresses the importance of commercial expansionism and cultural exchange in maritime Southeast Asia as both were foundational to Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British encounters with Islamic traders and regional ports of trade circa 1500–1700. Portuguese conquest of the Islamic sultanate of Melaka in 1511 and their subsequent imposition of restrictions on Straits of Melaka transit set in motion the relocations of numbers of multiethnic Islamic, South Asian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian traders and seafarers to emerging regional Islamic and Buddhist ports of trade. Local conversions to Islam and alternative developments of networked Buddhist institutions paired with that era’s economic and political opportunities in support of functional regional polities (represented in case studies of Banten, Ayutthaya, and Banjarmasin), which negated initial European East India Company ambitions to dominate regional trade.

Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology

Abstract: Peter Viereck, poet and historian, is one of the principle theoreticians of conservatism in modern American political thought. In this classic work, Viereck undertakes a penetrating and unorthodox analysis of that quintessential conservative, Prince Metternich, and offers evidence that cultural and political conservatism may perhaps be best adapted to sustain a free and reasonable society. According to Viereck's definition, conservatism is not the enemy of economic reform or social progress, nor is it the oppressive instrument of the privileged few. Although conservatism has been attacked from the left and often discredited by exploitation from the right, it remains the historic name for a point of view vital to contemporary society and culture. Divided into three parts, the book opens with a survey of conservatism in its cultural context of classicism and humanism. Rejecting the blind alley of reaction, Viereck calls for a discriminating set of principles that include preservation through reform, self-expression through self-restraint, a fruitful nostalgia for the permanent beneath the flux, and a preference for historical continuity over violent rupture. Viereck locates our idea of Western political unity in Metternich's Concert of Europe whose goal was a cosmopolitan Europe united in peace. This ideal was opposed by both the violent nationalism that resulted in Nazism and the socialist internationalism that became a tool of Soviet Russian expansionism. While not ignoring the extremely negative aspects of Metternich's legacy, Viereck focuses on his attempts to tame the bellicosity of European nationalism and his little-known efforts to reform and modernize the Hapsburg Empire.

Higher Education and Policy-making in Twentieth-century England

Abstract: Foreword PART I: SYSTEM MAKING 1. Preludes 2. Early decades: 'Unequal and inadequate' 3. 1940s: 'A new crispness' PART II: VALUES 4. Truscot: 'The universities' speaking conscience' 5. Postwar: 'A ferment of thought' 6. Moberly: 'The status quo and its defects' 7. 1950s: 'Modern needs' 8. Ashby: 'The age of technology' PART III: A NATIONAL PURPOSE 9. 1960s: 'Expansionism' 10. Final decades: 'Painful transformation' 11. Pressures and silences

Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46 (2nd Edition)

Abstract: Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of the 20th century: Stalinist industrialization, collectivization and political annihilation; Nazi expansionism and genocide; with local nationalism, local nationalist rivalries, and local anti-Semitism. The author traces the developments in one particular region of Latvia, Daugavpils. There, the dilemma of Hitler or Stalin, the ideological struggle of fascism or communism was more acute than anywhere else in Europe since the population was actively involved in establishing both.