The American Empire

by Scott Nearing

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
• [XIX] The American Worker and World Empire

[INDEX]

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