I. Introduction
    Embedded Histories--America in a World of Empires
    Ideology--national greatness; desire to be a great power; a racialized view of the world;
        a gendered view of the world; a Christian civilizing mission; economic and political
        development model; ambivalence toward revolutions
    Contact--Demographics
    Power--Economic, Military and Cultural

II. Early American Tensions
    What Kind of Empire?
    The American Multiplication Table and the Wicked Factions
    Continental Expansion
        Constitution--Article IV, Section 3
        Trans-Appalachian and Trans-Mississippi West--the Louisiana Purchase (1803)
    The Monroe Doctrine (1823) and Debates over Colonialism 

III. Transition: From the Old Foreign Policy to the New (1840s to 1870s)
    The Meaning of Land; The Meaning of a Great Power; The Search for Markets;
        The Civilizing Mission
   William Henry Seward--Production and Westward Moving Empire
        Railroads, a Central American Canal, and the Pacific Rim
    Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier
   Alfred Thayer Mahan--"The Influence of Sea Power Upon History"
        Industry, Oceans and the Two-Ocean Navy  
   Josiah Strong and The Civilizing Mission
   The Situation by the 1890s--Economics and Demographics

IV. The Spanish-American-Cuban-Philippine War and American Imperialism
    The Overseas Empire--Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba
    The Ideology
        Business Interests
        Race, Gender, and the Civilizing Mission--The White Man's Burden
        The Platt Amendment (1902)
        The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
        TR as Personification of the Ideology
        Race, Gender, and American Empire (Cartoons)
    The United States and the Quest for Stability in Latin America (Map)
    The United States in the Philippines

V. Questioning Formal Imperialism in the Early Twentieth Century
    Hay's Open Door Notes (1899-1900)
            Chinese Territorial integrity; open economic zones; equal economic access
        rejects revolutionary nationalism, economic partition, and military alliance
        Middle Eastern Oil (1920s-1930s)
    World War I and Wilsonian Self-Determination
    World War II and the Four Freedoms

VI. Conclusion: What is the United States after 1945, 1991, or 2001
    Economic Power
    Cultural Power (Coca-colonization?)
    Military Power (Pactomania, MAD, etc.)
    Political Power and Will to Intervene
        The Benefits of U.S. Intervention?