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The European Response to US Expansion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Authors: Šedivý Miroslav

Year: 2024

Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku

Name of source: European History Quarterly

Publisher name: SAGE Publications

Place: Thousand Oaks

Page from-to: 578-602

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	Evropská reakce na expanzi USA v polovině 19. století	Cílem studie je analýza reakce evropské společnosti na expanzi USA v polovině 19. století.	Evropa; USA; expanze; geopolitika; 19. století
eng	The European Response to US Expansion in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	The territorial expansion of the USA in the 1840s represented an important phase on its way to becoming a world power. Historians have paid considerable attention to US foreign policy during this period but have largely neglected the significant impact of US expansion on Europe. Whereas they have written a great deal about European reflections on American democracy or slavery, they have largely overlooked the geopolitical response that US expansion provoked among Europeans during that decade. This omission is surprising given the fact that this reaction spread not only in governmental circles but also among the broad public: the policy of the USA and its position in the Americas became an important topic with serious consequences for both sides of the Atlantic. Europeans often criticized the USA for its aggressive policy, and they feared that with the rise of its power it would behave in the same way in all parts of the world. The article's principal aim is to reveal the European response to US territorial expansion and how the repercussions of this response on the USA contributed to the rise of pan-Europeanism, nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism from the mid-nineteenth century.	Europe; expansion; geopolitics; mid-nineteenth century; USA

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