Race over Empire

Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, benevolent assimilation, and the concept of the “white man’s burden” drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. In Race over Empire , Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had nearly the opposite effect. From President Grant’s attempt to acquire the Dominican Republic in 1870 to the annexation