This volume examines US empire-building and other aspects of its relationship with the world in the nineteenth century.

List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Contributors to Volume II; General Introduction: What is America and the World? Mark Philip Bradley; Introduction to Volume II Jay Sexton and Kristin Hoganson; Part I. Building and Resisting U.S. Empire: 1. The United States between Nation and Empire, 1776-1820 Nicholas Guyatt; 2. Indigenous Nations and the United States Donna L. Akers; 3. Settler Colonialism Jeffrey Ostler; 4. Slavery and Statecraft Robert Bonner; 5. The Mexican-American War Alice L. Baumgartner; 6. Containing Empire: The United States and the World in the Civil War Era Brian Schoen; 7. The United States in an Age of Global Integration, 1865-1897 David Sim; 8. The Wars of 1898 and the US Overseas Empire John Tone; Part II. Imperial Structures: 9. The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783-1900 Max M. Edling; 10. The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819-1919 Eileen P. Scully; 11. The United States and Global Capitalism Dael A. Norwood; 12. Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition Christina Heatherton; 13. The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865-1900 Dirk Bönker; 14. Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century Peter Shulman; 15. The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century Andrew C. Isenberg; Part III. Americans and the World: 16. Foreign Relations Between Indigenous Polities, 1820-1900 Brian DeLay; 17. Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924 Madeline Y. Hsu; 18. The Antislavery International R. J. M. Blackett; 19. American Missionaries in the World Emily Conroy-Krutz; 20. Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism Brian Rouleau; 21. Colonial Intimacies in US Empire Tessa Marie Winkelmann; 22. Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World Daniel Bender; Part IV. Americans in the World: 23. The Changing Geography of Mobility, 1820-1940 Donna R. Gabaccia; 24. The United States and the Greater Caribbean, 1763-1898 Luis Martínez Fernández; 25. Borderlands and Border Crossings Sam Truett; 26. The Liberal North Atlantic Leslie Butler; 27. 'To Enter America from Africa and Africa from America' during the Nineteenth Century Jeannette Eileen Jones; 28. Islamic World Encounters Karine V. Walther; 29. The American Island Empire: US Expansionism in the Pacific and the Caribbean JoAnna Poblete; 30. Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization Ian Tyrrell; Index.