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". . . Reconstruction and Empire is now an essential starting point for historians seeking to understand how, within a half century, ""the United States government went from conducting one of the most radical experiments in the history of democracy to constructing a racist empire.""-- ""Journal of Southern History"" Although the 1860s and 1890s feature prominently in most histories of U.S. foreign policy, it is perhaps time that we pay more attention to how Americans in the 1870s and 1880s interacted with the world around them. If anyone is interested in doing so, Reconstruction and Empire is a good place to start.-- ""The Journal of Arizona History"" Although historians of Reconstruction have broadened their scope to encompass the U.S. conquest of western North America, they have hesitated to venture into the Caribbean and Pacific. This collection bridges the scholarly gulf between Reconstruction and overseas imperialism. It expands chronologies, reframes geographies, and traces connections in eye-opening ways, revealing how the age of emancipation bled into the age of empire.---Kristin Hoganson, The Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"

Although historians of Reconstruction have broadened their scope to encompass the U.S. conquest of western North America, they have hesitated to venture into the Caribbean and Pacific. This collection bridges the scholarly gulf between Reconstruction and overseas imperialism. It expands chronologies, reframes geographies, and traces connections in eye-opening ways, revealing how the age of emancipation bled into the age of empire.---Kristin Hoganson, The Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

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David Prior is an associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Between Freedom and Progress: Th e Lost World of Reconstruction Politics (Louisiana State University Press, 2019) and the editor of Reconstruction in a Globalizing World (Fordham University Press, 2018).

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