Part 1: Introduction
1. American Empire in Global History
Shigeru Akita
Part 2: The American Revolution and The Post-Colonial Order
2. Imperial Confusion: America’s Post-colonial and Post-revolutionary Empire
Patrick Griffin
3. United States Expansion and Incorporation in the Long Nineteenth-Century
Max M. Edling
4. The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins's American Empire
Jay Sexton
Part 3: Insular Perspectives on Empire
5. Cuba: Context and Consequences for the American Empire
William A. Morgan
6. The Road to 1898: On American Empire and the Philippine Revolution
Reynaldo C. Ileto
7. Restoring Asia to the Global Moment of 1898
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
Part 4: The Empire in the Twentieth Century
8. Law Against Empire, or Law for Empire? – American Imagination and the International Legal Order in the Twentieth Century
Seiko Mimaki
9. Informal Empire and the Cold War
Hideki Kan
Part V: Response
10. Imperial Puzzles
A. G. Hopkins
Biography
Shigeru Akita is Professor of Global History, Osaka University, Japan. His major publications include From Empires to Development Aid (2017, in Japanese); (ed. with G. Krozewski); The Transformation of the International Order of Asia: Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan (London: Routledge, 2015).
