The American Empire

About this eBook

Author

Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983

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E-text prepared by Peter Vachuska, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

HC: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Special topics

Subject

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

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Text

eBook-No.

27787

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27787

Release Date

January 12, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE AMERICAN EMPIRE — By
2. 2.SCOTT NEARING — Author of "Wages in the United States" "Income" "Financing the Wage-Earner's Family" "Anthracite" "Poverty and Riches," etc. — NEW YORK THE RAND SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE 7 EAST 15TH STREET 1921 — All rights reserved — Copyright, 1921 , by the Rand School of Social Science — First Edition, January, 1921 Second Edition, February, 1921
3. 3.CONTENTS — PART I WHAT IS AMERICA? — PART II THE FOUNDATIONS OF EMPIRE. — A. The Conquest of America. — B. Plutocracy. — PART III MANIFEST DESTINY. — PART IV THE UNITED STATES—A WORLD EMPIRE. — PART V THE CHALLENGE TO IMPERIALISM. — INDEX — The American Empire
4. 4.I. THE PROMISE OF 1776 — 1. The American Republic — 2. The Yearning for Liberty — 3. Government of the People — 4. The Source of Authority — 5. The American Tradition — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.II. THE COURSE OF EMPIRE — 1. Promise and Fulfillment — 2. The Characteristics of Empire — 3. The Preservation of Empire — 4. The Price of Empire — 5. The Universality of Empire — 6. The Evolution of Empire — 7. The United States and the Stages of Empire
6. 6.III. SUBJUGATING THE INDIANS — 1. The Conquering Peoples — 2. The First Obstacle to Conquest — 3. Getting the Land — 4. The Triumph of the Whites — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.IV. SLAVERY FOR A RACE — 1. The Labor Shortage — 2. The Slave Coast — 3. The Slave Trade — 4. Slavery in the United States — 5. Slavery for a Race — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.V. THE WINNING OF THE WEST — 1. Westward, Ho! — 2. The Southwest — 3. Texas — 4. The Conquest of Mexico — 5. Conquering the Conquered — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.VI. THE BEGINNINGS OF WORLD DOMINION — 1. The Shifting of Control — 2. Hawaii — 3. The Spanish-American War — 4. The Philippines — 5. Imperialism Accepted — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.VII. THE STRUGGLE FOR WEALTH AND POWER — 1. Economic Foundations — 2. Every Man for Himself — 3. The Struggle for Organization — 4. Capitalist against Capitalist — 5. The Investment Banker — 6. The Cohesion of Wealth — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.VIII. THEIR UNITED STATES — 1. Translating Wealth into Power — 2. The Wealth of the United States — 3. Ownership and Control — 4. The Avenues of Mastery — 5. The Mastery of Job-Ownership — 6. The Ownership of the Product — 7. The Control of the Surplus — 8. The Channels of Public Opinion — 9. The Control of Political Machinery — 10. It is "Their United States" — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.IX. THE DIVINE RIGHT OF PROPERTY — 1. Land Ownership and Liberty — 2. Security of "Acquisitions" — 3. Safeguarding Property Rights — 4. Property Rights and Civilization — Personal Incomes by Sources —1917 — 5. Plutocracy — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.X. INDUSTRIAL EMPIRES — 1. They Cannot Pause! — 2. The Knotty Problem of Surplus — 3. "Undeveloped Countries" — 4. The Great Investing Nations — 5. The American Home Field — 6. Leaving the Home Field — 7. Building on Foreign Resources — 8. Manufacturing and Marketing Abroad — 9. International Business and Finance — 10. The National City Bank — 11. Onward
14. 14.XI. THE GREAT WAR — 1. Daylight — 2. Plutocracy in the Saddle — 3. Making the Plutocracy Be Good — 4. "Preparedness" — 5. Patriots — 6. Business in Control — 7. Economic Winnings — 8. Winnings in the Home Field — 9. The Run of the World — 10. Victory — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.XII. THE IMPERIAL HIGHROAD — 1. A Youthful Traveler — 2. An Imperial People — 3. A Place in the Sun — 4. The Will to Power — 5. Imperial Purpose — 6. Advertising Imperialism — 7. Manifest Destiny — 8. The Open Road — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.XIII. THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD COMPETITOR — 1. A New World Power — 2. The Resources of the United States — 3. The Capital of the United States — 4. Products of the United States — 5. Shipping — 6. Wealth and Income — 7. The Economic Position of the United States
17. 17.XIV. THE PARTITION OF THE EARTH — 1. Economic Power and Political Authority — 2. Dividing the Spoils — 3. Italy, France and Japan — 4. The Lion's Share — 5. Half the World—Without a Struggle
18. 18.XV. PAN-AMERICANISM — 1. America for the Americans — 2. Latin America — 3. Economic "Latin America" — 4. American Protectorates — Fortune in Sugar — 5. The Appropriation of Territory — 6. The Logical Exploiters — FOOTNOTE:
19. 19.XVI. THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTS AND WORLD EMPIRE — 1. The Plutocrats Must Carry On — 2. Training Imperialists — 3. The Logical Goal — 4. Eat or Be Eaten — 5. The Capitalists and War — 6. The Imperial Task
20. 20.XVII. THE NEW IMPERIAL ALIGNMENT — 1. A Survey of the Evidence — 2. The New International Line-Up — 3. The Yellow Peril — 4. The British and the American Empires — 5. The Next Incident in the Great War — 6. The Imperial Task — 7. Continuing the Imperial Struggle — 8. Again!
21. 21.XVIII. THE CHALLENGE TO IMPERIALISM — 1. Revolutionary Protest — 2. Outlawing Bolshevism — 3. The New Europe — 4. The Challenge — 5. The Real Struggle
22. 22.XIX. THE AMERICAN WORKER AND WORLD EMPIRE — 1. Gains and Losses — 2. The Workers' Business — 3. The British Workers — 4. The Long Trail — 5. The New Germany — 6. The Price — 7. A Way Out — FOOTNOTE: — THE END
23. 23.INDEX.

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