{"product_id":"the-united-states-and-the-ends-of-empire-decolonization-hierarchy-and-world-order-since-1776-hardcover","title":"The United States and the Ends of Empire: Decolonization, Hierarchy, and World Order Since 1776 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSean T. Byrnes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eThomas Zeiler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFew topics are more important to understanding the origins of the modern world than decolonization, and few countries have played a more important role in that history than the United States. \u003c\/b\u003eIn this book, Sean T. Byrnes provides a definitive, single-volume account of the relationship between the United States, decolonization, and world order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a lively narrative history that ranges across four centuries, Byrnes reveals how the process of ending and replacing empires defined the American relationship to the world from the colonial era to the present. Despite the egalitarian rhetoric of the American Revolution, hierarchies born of the imperial age-and defined by ideas about race, capitalism, and civilization-fundamentally shaped American views of who was entitled to sovereignty and when. Therefore, far from building a world of \"Westphalian\" sovereign equality, the United States instead manipulated, expanded, and then attempted to dominate globe spanning structures of wealth and power that served the few at the expense of the many. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom early interactions with Native Americans and a decolonizing Latin America, to efforts to bolster global hierarchies after the World Wars and influence the postcolonial \"Third World\", \u003ci\u003eThe United States and the Ends of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the story of a US that may not always have embraced formal empire but nevertheless still sought to organize the world in imperial ways. In the process, it reveals how Americans helped build today's modern, globalized world-and the unequal hierarchies of wealth and power that define it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSean T. Byrnes\u003c\/b\u003e is a General Education Instructor at Western Governors University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland Global Campus. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDisunited Nations: U.S. Foreign Policy, Anti-Americanism, and the Rise of the New Right \u003c\/i\u003e(2021). His work has appeared in publications including, \u003ci\u003eTime, Dissent, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDiplomatic History\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Emory University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46226083512517,"sku":"9781350341661","price":175.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/Mf-bfrsXHV9781350341661.webp?v=1778839023","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-united-states-and-the-ends-of-empire-decolonization-hierarchy-and-world-order-since-1776-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}