Imperialism?

Giddings, Franklin H.

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“…Although Giddings put questions of empire on the sociological agenda in 1910, in fact he had already theorized imperialism and had subsequently engaged in a heated debate with Willliam Graham Sumner. While Sumner took an anti-imperial stance, Giddings argued that empire was a force for good (Giddings, 1898; Sumner, 1911). Contrary to existing accounts, this debate was about American imperialism, not European imperialism, as Giddings himself made clear in his 1898 essay ‘Imperialism?’ and his book Democracy and Empire (see Kennedy and Centano, 2007).…”

Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lenin, both of whom are typically taken to be the ‘founders’ of the ‘economic theory’ of imperialism (Eckstein, 1991). Giddings argued, for instance, that American imperialism would help the American economy, providing new ‘economic advantages’ such as Britain had seen with its expanded overseas trade (Giddings, 1898: 601). 7 Giddings also connected imperialism abroad with social processes at home.…”

Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nations, like individuals, improve both their morals and their manners when they have no alternative. … our new responsibilities will operate more surely and more continuously than any other influences to improve the morale and wisdom of the American administration.(Giddings, 1898: 602) 8…”

Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Giddings further saw overseas expansion as impacting class conflict in the Unites States. If Americans’ exhibited a ‘reservoir of energy,’ they needed an ‘outlet.’ The outlet, for Giddings, had to be overseas colonial ventures, and without such an outlet, the ‘energy … might discharge itself in anarchistic, socialistic, and other destructive modes’ (1898: 590). In this sense traditional accounts of early American sociology are only partially correct.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Beyond metrocentrism: From empire to globalism in early US sociology

2013

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Existing accounts of American sociology’s founding years during the early twentieth century assume that the discipline was ‘metrocentric.’ They assume that it was only interested in processes occurring within the United States; that American sociologists fell prey to state-centrist thought; and that, therefore, contextualizing America sociology’s emergence necessitates understanding relations, events, and processes within the confines of US territorial boundaries. By contrast, this paper shows the imperial and hence global aspects of early American sociological thought. Early American sociologists were interested in imperialism and, therefore, in cross-societal, transnational, and global processes and relations. Implicitly or explicitly they approached imperialism as a process by which social groups, not least ‘races,’ interacted and conflicted. They also saw it as a route towards new global forms. Early American sociology thus articulated a sociological imagination that looked beyond American society and to the wider world.

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Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

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Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Social Processes Of Empirementioning

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Beyond metrocentrism: From empire to globalism in early US sociology

2013

Journal of Classical Sociology

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“…In Giddings’ (1911, 580–1) presidential address to the American Sociological Society (later the American Sociological Association), he claimed that among the key ‘questions that vex us’ and which sociology should address were ‘questions of territorial expansion and of rule over alien peoples’. Giddings in turn wrote works on imperialism and gave lectures providing typologies of imperial forms (Giddings 1898, 1900). Lester Ward likewise saw imperialism as an important issue.…”

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The ‘New’ Sociology of Empire and Colonialism

2009

Sociology Compass

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This study reviews recent sociological scholarship on empire and colonialism. The new ‘imperial–colonial studies’ in sociology is not a fully fledged subfield but an emerging space of inquiry that examines social forms, processes, and relations associated with imperialism and colonialism. This study sketches the main features of the new scholarship. It also situates the new sociological studies within a larger history of sociological inquiry and interdisciplinary context. Finally, it suggests that the future of sociology’s new imperial–colonial studies lies not in ‘sociologizing’ the study of empire and colonialism but in deploying analyses of empire and colonialism to help critically reorient some of traditional sociology’s limiting lenses and assumptions.

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The Noble American Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development

Vitalis

2010

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Political scientists in early-twentieth-century America who traced the nineteenth-century origins of their field pointed to the British theorist and statesmen, George Cornewall Lewis (1806–1863). His best-known work is An Essay on the Government of Dependencies (1841). Lewis defined the science of politics as comprising three parts: the nature of the relation between a sovereign government and its subjects, the relation between the sovereign governments of independent communities, and “the relation of a dominant and a dependent community; or, in other words, the relation of supremacy and dependence.” Modern writers, however, had not yet taken up the nature of the political relation of supremacy and dependency in any systematic way.

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Imperialism?

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Beyond metrocentrism: From empire to globalism in early US sociology

Beyond metrocentrism: From empire to globalism in early US sociology

The ‘New’ Sociology of Empire and Colonialism

The Noble American Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development

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