Union, Nation, Empire: The
Structure and Meaning of
American History
Table of Contents
I The Problem and Its Modes
1. Empire, Nation, Union
2. The Impact of War
3. Three Governing Systems
II. The Philadelphian System,
1787-1861
4. Peace Pact
5. One Constitution, Many
Unions
6. “Preemption, Unilateralism,
Hegemony”?
7. Terminal Crisis and Tragic
Choice
III. The Appomattox System,
1865-1941
8. "At Last We are a Nation"
9. A Commission from God?
10. The New Internationalism
Comes and Goes
11. Terminal Crisis and Tragic
Choice
IV. The Washington System,
1945-present
12. "Not Since Rome"
13. United Nations and Western
Alliance
14. Near Union and Far Empire
15. After Vietnam: The
Reconstruction of U.S. Foreign
Policy
16. The New World Order
17. The Bush Revolution
V. From Federal Union to
Universal Empire
18. The Great Reversal
19. Six Lessons from the
Founding
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