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By

SCOTT NEARING

Author of "Wages in the United States" "Income" "Financing the Wage-Earner's Family" "Anthracite" "Poverty and Riches," etc.

NEW YORK THE RAND SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE 7 EAST 15TH STREET 1921

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1921, by the Rand School of Social Science

First Edition, January, 1921 Second Edition, February, 1921

CONTENTS

PART I WHAT IS AMERICA?

PART II THE FOUNDATIONS OF EMPIRE.

A. The Conquest of America.

B. Plutocracy.

PART III MANIFEST DESTINY.

PART IV THE UNITED STATES—A WORLD EMPIRE.

PART V THE CHALLENGE TO IMPERIALISM.

INDEX

I. THE PROMISE OF 1776

1. The American Republic

2. The Yearning for Liberty

3. Government of the People

4. The Source of Authority

5. The American Tradition

FOOTNOTES:

II. THE COURSE OF EMPIRE

1. Promise and Fulfillment

2. The Characteristics of Empire

3. The Preservation of Empire

4. The Price of Empire

5. The Universality of Empire

6. The Evolution of Empire

7. The United States and the Stages of Empire

III. SUBJUGATING THE INDIANS

1. The Conquering Peoples

2. The First Obstacle to Conquest

3. Getting the Land

4. The Triumph of the Whites

FOOTNOTES:

IV. SLAVERY FOR A RACE

1. The Labor Shortage

2. The Slave Coast

3. The Slave Trade

4. Slavery in the United States

5. Slavery for a Race

FOOTNOTES:

V. THE WINNING OF THE WEST

1. Westward, Ho!

2. The Southwest

3. Texas

4. The Conquest of Mexico

5. Conquering the Conquered

FOOTNOTES:

VI. THE BEGINNINGS OF WORLD DOMINION

1. The Shifting of Control

2. Hawaii

3. The Spanish-American War

4. The Philippines

5. Imperialism Accepted

FOOTNOTES:

VII. THE STRUGGLE FOR WEALTH AND POWER

1. Economic Foundations

2. Every Man for Himself

3. The Struggle for Organization

4. Capitalist against Capitalist

5. The Investment Banker

6. The Cohesion of Wealth

FOOTNOTES:

VIII. THEIR UNITED STATES

1. Translating Wealth into Power

2. The Wealth of the United States

3. Ownership and Control

4. The Avenues of Mastery

5. The Mastery of Job-Ownership

6. The Ownership of the Product

7. The Control of the Surplus

8. The Channels of Public Opinion

9. The Control of Political Machinery

10. It is "Their United States"

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IX. THE DIVINE RIGHT OF PROPERTY

1. Land Ownership and Liberty

2. Security of "Acquisitions"

3. Safeguarding Property Rights

4. Property Rights and Civilization

Personal Incomes by Sources—1917

5. Plutocracy

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X. INDUSTRIAL EMPIRES

1. They Cannot Pause!

2. The Knotty Problem of Surplus

3. "Undeveloped Countries"

4. The Great Investing Nations

5. The American Home Field

6. Leaving the Home Field

7. Building on Foreign Resources

8. Manufacturing and Marketing Abroad

9. International Business and Finance

10. The National City Bank

11. Onward

XI. THE GREAT WAR

1. Daylight

2. Plutocracy in the Saddle

3. Making the Plutocracy Be Good

4. "Preparedness"

5. Patriots

6. Business in Control

7. Economic Winnings

8. Winnings in the Home Field

9. The Run of the World

10. Victory

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XII. THE IMPERIAL HIGHROAD

1. A Youthful Traveler

2. An Imperial People

3. A Place in the Sun

4. The Will to Power

5. Imperial Purpose

6. Advertising Imperialism

7. Manifest Destiny

8. The Open Road

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XIII. THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD COMPETITOR

1. A New World Power

2. The Resources of the United States

3. The Capital of the United States

4. Products of the United States

5. Shipping

6. Wealth and Income

7. The Economic Position of the United States

XIV. THE PARTITION OF THE EARTH

1. Economic Power and Political Authority

2. Dividing the Spoils

3. Italy, France and Japan

4. The Lion's Share

5. Half the World—Without a Struggle

XV. PAN-AMERICANISM

1. America for the Americans

2. Latin America

3. Economic "Latin America"

4. American Protectorates

Fortune in Sugar

5. The Appropriation of Territory

6. The Logical Exploiters

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XVI. THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTS AND WORLD EMPIRE

1. The Plutocrats Must Carry On

2. Training Imperialists

3. The Logical Goal

4. Eat or Be Eaten

5. The Capitalists and War

6. The Imperial Task

XVII. THE NEW IMPERIAL ALIGNMENT

1. A Survey of the Evidence

2. The New International Line-Up

3. The Yellow Peril

4. The British and the American Empires

5. The Next Incident in the Great War

6. The Imperial Task

7. Continuing the Imperial Struggle

8. Again!

XVIII. THE CHALLENGE TO IMPERIALISM

1. Revolutionary Protest

2. Outlawing Bolshevism

3. The New Europe

4. The Challenge

5. The Real Struggle

XIX. THE AMERICAN WORKER AND WORLD EMPIRE

1. Gains and Losses

2. The Workers' Business

3. The British Workers

4. The Long Trail

5. The New Germany

6. The Price

7. A Way Out

FOOTNOTE:

THE END

INDEX.