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THE AMERICAN
EMPIRE

 

By

SCOTT NEARING

Author of
"Wages in the United States"
"Income"
"Financing theWage-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

 


CONTENTS

PART I

WHAT IS AMERICA?

  • CHAPTER
  •       I  The Promise of 1776
  •      II  The Course of Empire

PART II

THE FOUNDATIONS OF EMPIRE.

A. The Conquest of America.

  •     III  Subjugating the Indians
  •      IV  Slavery for a Race
  •       V  Winning the West
  •      VI  The Beginnings of World Dominion

B. Plutocracy.

  •     VII  The Struggle for Wealth and Power
  •    VIII  Their United States
  •      IX  The Divine Right of Property

PART III

MANIFEST DESTINY.

  •       X  Industrial Empires
  •      XI  The Great War
  •     XII  The Imperial Highroad

PART IV

THE UNITED STATES—A WORLD EMPIRE.

  •    XIII  The United States as a World Competitor
  •     XIV  The Partition of the Earth
  •      XV  Pan-Americanism
  •     XVI  The American Capitalist and World Empire

PART V

THE CHALLENGE TO IMPERIALISM.

  •    XVII  The New Imperial Alignment
  •   XVIII  The Challenge in Europe
  •     ...

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