Empires, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons, by Paul Kramer

Further Reading

U.S. National Exceptionalism and Transnational History

George M. Fredrickson, "From Exceptionalism to Variability: Recent Developments in Cross-National Comparative History," Journal of American History 82 (Sept. 1995), 587-604.

Michael McGerr, "The Price of the 'New Transnational History,'" American Historical Review 96 (Oct. 1991), 1056-67.

Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).

Daniel T. Rodgers, "Exceptionalism," in Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past, ed. Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), 21-40.

Dorothy Ross, The Origins of American Social Science (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Ian Tyrrell, "American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History," American Historical Review 96 (Oct. 1991), 1031-55.

Ian Tyrrell, "Ian Tyrell Responds," American Historical Review 96 (Oct. 1991), 1068-72.

Historiography of Empire

Michael Adas, "High" Imperialism and the "New History" (Washington: American Historical Association, 1993).

Ann Stoler and Frederick Cooper, "Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda," in Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, ed. Ann Stoler and Frederick Cooper (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 1-56.

Nicholas Thomas, Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel, and Government (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).

Patrick Wolfe, "History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postcolonialism," American Historical Review 102 (April 1997), 388-420.

Historiography of U.S. Empire

Edward P. Crapol, "Coming to Terms with Empire: The Historiography of Late 19th-Century American Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 16 (Fall 1992), 573-97.

Amy Kaplan, "'Left Alone with America': The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture," in Cultures of United States Imperialism, ed. Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993), 3-21.

Robert Beisner, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900 (Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1986).

Race and Imperial Ideology in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Gerald Horne, "Race from Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and the General Crisis of 'White Supremacy,'" Diplomatic History 23 (Summer 1999), 437-61.

Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).

Paul Kramer, "Making Concessions: Race and Empire Revisited at the Philippine Exposition, St. Louis, 1901-5," Radical History Review 73 (Winter 1999), 74-114.

Robert Rydell, All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions 1876-1916 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).

Anders Stefanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996).

Anglo-Saxonism

Stuart Anderson, Race and Rapprochement: Anglo-Saxonism and Anglo-American Relations, 1895-1904 (Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University, 1981).

L. Perry Curtis Jr., Anglo-Saxons and Celts: A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England (New York: New York University Press, 1968).

Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981).

Anna Maria Martellone, "In the Name of Anglo-Saxondom, for Empire and for Democracy: The Anglo-American Discourse, 1880-1920," in Reflections on American Exceptionalism, ed. David K. Adams and Cornelis A. van Minnen (Staffordshire: Ryburn, Keele University Press, 1994), 83-96.

The Philippine-American War and U.S. "Anti-Imperialism"

Brian M. Linn, The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000).

Stuart Creighton Miller, "Benevolent Assimilation": The American Conquest of the Philippines 1899-1903 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).

Daniel Schirmer, Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1972).

Richard Welch, Response to Imperialism: The United States and the Philippine-American War 1899-1902 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1979).

Jim Zwick, "The Anti-Imperialist League and the Origins of Filipino-American Oppositional Solidarity," Amerasia Journal 24 (No. 2, 1998), 64-85.

The American Colonial Philippines

Paul Hutchcroft, "Colonial Masters, National Politicos, and Provincial Lords: Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the American Philippines, 1900-1913," Journal of Asian Studies 59 (no. 2, 2000), 277-306.

Norman G. Owen, ed., Compadre Colonialism: Studies on the Philippines under American Rule (Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 1971).

Ruby Paredes, ed., Philippine Colonial Democracy (New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1988).

Vicente Rafael, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000).