Liberty and american anti-imperialism 1898-1909 : 1898-1909

This book provides a study of the American anti-imperialist movement during its most active years of opposition to US foreign policy, from 1898 to 1909. It re-evaluates the movement's motives and operations throughout these years by evaluating the way in which Americans conceived the idea of 'liberty.'. 1898 was a landmark year for the United States on the global stage, one in which it made unprecedented acquisitions of overseas territories and dramatically expanded its geopolitical influence. These developments did not go unopposed, however. As author Michael Patrick Cullinane shows, hundreds of thousands of Americans rejected as imperialist their nation's foreign policy. In doing so, these dissenters established the first national anti-imperialist movement. This book offers a fresh look at anti-imperial protest, demonstrating that the American movement was not a complete failure, and indeed prefigured latter-day protest movements Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-10 The Origins of a Movement....Pages 11-28 Opposing the Treaty of Paris....Pages 29-49 Citizenship and the Election of 1900....Pages 51-73 Building Transnational Networks....Pages 75-92 The Insular Cases....Pages 93-114 The Social Movement....Pages 115-147 Split and Decline....Pages 149-176 Conclusion....Pages 177-182 Back Matter....Pages 183-246