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Debating American Exceptionalism: Empire and Democracy in the Wake of the Spanish-American War

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the American “imperialism debate” around 1900 and it breaks new methodological ground in its analysis of American exceptionalism as a dialectic concept, oscillating between “democracy” and “nationalism.” The book is based on six years of research and writing, including four months of archival research in the United States (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress; Massachusetts Historical Society, Houghton Manuscript Library, Widener Library and various university libraries across the U.S.), as well as a thorough survey of the contemporary newspaper and journal landscape. The research includes texts in English, French and German.