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Tables of Contents for The New Empire
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface, 1998
xi
Preface
xxxi
Years of Preparation, 1860--1889
1
61
The Roots of the New Empire
3
3
The Industrial Revolution
6
4
Westward the Course of Empire---and Discontent
10
7
The Reaction of American Business
17
7
Seward
24
8
Grant and Fish
32
7
Evarts
39
7
Blaine and Frelinghuysen
46
7
Bayard and the Pacific
53
5
The Beginning of the Modern American Navy
58
2
Conclusion: The Period of Preparation
60
2
The Intellectual Formation
62
40
Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier
63
9
Josiah Strong and the Missionary Frontier
72
8
Brooks Adams, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and the Far Western Frontier
80
15
The Ideological Consensus
95
7
The Strategic Formulation
102
48
The Assumptions and Objectives
104
8
Pan-Americanism: ``The Battle for a Market''
112
9
The Beginnings of the Modern Battleship Navy
121
6
The Haitian Revolution
127
3
The Chilean Revolution
130
6
The New Empire in the Western Pacific, 1889--1892
136
4
A Premature American Frontier in the Pacific
140
10
The Economic Formulation
150
47
The Goldbugs and Foreign Markets
153
6
The Tariff of 1894
159
13
``Symptoms of Revolution''
172
4
The American Business Community: Analysis
176
10
The American Business Community: Solutions
186
11
Reaction: Depression Diplomacy, 1893--1895
197
45
Hawaii
203
7
The Brazilian Revolution of 1894
210
8
Replacing the British in Nicaragua
218
11
Depression, Expansion, and the Battleship Navy
229
13
Reaction: The Venezuelan Boundary Crisis of 1895--1896
242
42
Lighting the Fuse
243
16
The Explosion
259
11
Aftermath
270
14
Reaction: New Problems, New Friends, New Foes
284
42
The Cuban Revolution, 1895--1897
285
15
The Far East
300
11
New Friends
311
7
New Foes
318
8
Reaction: Approach to War
326
81
McKinley
327
6
Cuba, 1897 to March 17, 1898
333
19
The Far East, 1897 to March, 1898
352
10
Hawaii
362
8
The American Business Community before the War with Spain, 1897 to February, 1898
370
9
The Decision for War
379
28
Epilogue
407
11
Selected Bibligraphy
418
9
Acknowledgments
427
2
Index
429