Jay Sexton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Sexton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Sexton |
| SIGNATURE | SEXTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History by Aaron W. Marrs (review)
The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Global History
Journal Article The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Global History Get access Jay Sexton Jay Sexton E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad043, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad043 Published: 07 July 2023
The Cambridge History of America and the World
The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental, legal, technological, and other veins of analysis, it places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their pe…
Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 2, 1812-1900
Industry and Geopolitics in the Early U.S. Empire
The imperial turn in the study of the nineteenth century has made an endangered species of scholars that deny the existence of U.S. empire. But with the closure of the old “was the United States in the nineteenth century an empire” debate has come a host of new questions and research avenues. One such line of scholarship seeks to better understand and unpack the U.S. empire’s constitutive parts, geopolitical logic, and political economy. Enter Li…
The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins's American Empire
Where does the United States fit into global histories of modern empire? This essay contends that A.G. Hopkins's depiction of nineteenth century America as the modern world's first postcolonial polity not only imaginatively advances the project of globalising U.S. history, it also reveals the ongoing significance of America to the expansion and development of the British Empire itself. Viewing the British Empire through its deep and diverse conne…
The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion
The Second American Revolution: The Civil War–Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
Gregory Downs advances two broad arguments in this concise but rich book. First, he contends that the sectional crisis in the mid-nineteenth-century United States was a “revolutionary situation” that ultimately led to “the fall of the First American Republic and the rise of a Second Republic founded on a Second Constitution created in a Second American Revolution” (p. 4). Downs details the Republican party's turn toward “bloody constitutionalism”…
The National Grange: A Rural Community Resource to Increase the Reach of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the United States
Crossing Empires: Taking U. S. History into Transimperial Terrain
From Triumph to Crisis: An American Tradition
It is a privilege to have the opportunity to address you all today. I would like to start with a shout-out to Stuart L. Bernath. I have been a big fan of Bernath ever since I was hunting for a transatlantic Civil War dissertation topic back in grad school. It was then that I first came across Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy, a meticulously researched and perceptive study of maritime law during the Civil Wa…
William H. Seward, el vapor, y el imperialismo estadounidense, 1850-1875
Este artículo analiza la manera en que William H. Seward adaptó la visión imperial y las políticas de Estados Unidos a la luz de la revolución de la tecnología de vapor a mediados del siglo XIX. La historiografía ha visto a Seward como uno de los arquitectos más importantes del imperio estadounidense, pero lo que no se ha enfatizado de manera apropiada es cómo su legado fue menos en su continuidad con sus antecesores y sucesores y más en cómo int…
Karine V. Walther. Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821–1921
There are few if any topics fitting under the broad rubric of “the United States and the world” that are more in need of scholarly attention than the history of the encounters between the U.S. and Islamic societies in the long nineteenth century. Despite the obvious contemporary importance of the topic, the historiography remains surprisingly sparse, though part of the explanation for this can be found in the quality of those works that do exist …
Empire's twin: U.S. anti-imperialism from the founding era to the age of terrorism
Andre M. Fleche. The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
Journal Article Andre M. Fleche. The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict. Get access Andre M. Fleche. The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2012. Pp. xii, 204. $39.95. Jay Sexton Jay Sexton Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present
In this forcefully argued comparative history, Julian Go refutes exceptionalist interpretations of American imperialism. In the crosshairs are scholars who deny the existence of empire in American history, as well as those who contend that the American Empire has been more progressive and liberal than the empires of Old World powers due to the anticolonial political traditions of the United States. Rather than viewing the American Empire as somet…
Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865–1890
The United States, the Cuban Rebellion, and the Multilateral Initiative of 1875
Journal Article The United States, the Cuban Rebellion, and the Multilateral Initiative of 1875 Get access Jay Sexton Jay Sexton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2006, Pages 335–365, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2006.00559.x Published: 08 May 2006
The Global View of the United States
In the past decade, ‘internationalizing’ or ‘globalizing’ American history has become the mantra of the historical profession. This essay reviews this new body of literature that situates American history within a global framework, searches for connections between the United States and the rest of the world, and explores how American practices and culture have been exported. The ‘globalizing’ project, it shall be argued, has helped historians mov…
Toward a synthesis of foreign relations in the Civil War era, 1848–77
Perhaps the greatest void in the scholarship on U.S. foreign relations is the lack of a synthesis covering the Civil War era, 1848–77. Largely as a result of the crisis of the Union, these years constitute a distinct period in foreign relations that should be treated as a whole. Though sectionalism, party conflict, the Civil War and Reconstruction did not influence foreign policy in a consistent manner, statesmen viewed foreign affairs through a …
The Funded Loan and the Alabama Claims
Journal Article The Funded Loan and the Alabama Claims Get access Jay Sexton Jay Sexton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, September 2003, Pages 449–478, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00364 Published: 01 August 2003
Transatlantic financiers and the Civil War
This essay examines the sympathies and actions of transatlantic financiers in Britain during the Civil War. Motivated largely by their financial and ideological connection to the Northern states, major Anglo‐American banks sympathized with the Union and campaigned to keep Britain out of the conflict. Unable to procure the support of Britain's leading banking houses, the Confederacy turned to lesser capitalists and speculators for financial assist…
The Global View of the United States
In the past decade, ‘internationalizing’ or ‘globalizing’ American history has become the mantra of the historical profession. This essay reviews this new body of literature that situates American history within a global framework, searches for connections between the United States and the rest of the world, and explores how American practices and culture have been exported. The ‘globalizing’ project, it shall be argued, has helped historians mov…
The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins's American Empire
Where does the United States fit into global histories of modern empire? This essay contends that A.G. Hopkins's depiction of nineteenth century America as the modern world's first postcolonial polity not only imaginatively advances the project of globalising U.S. history, it also reveals the ongoing significance of America to the expansion and development of the British Empire itself. Viewing the British Empire through its deep and diverse conne…
Transatlantic financiers and the Civil War
This essay examines the sympathies and actions of transatlantic financiers in Britain during the Civil War. Motivated largely by their financial and ideological connection to the Northern states, major Anglo‐American banks sympathized with the Union and campaigned to keep Britain out of the conflict. Unable to procure the support of Britain's leading banking houses, the Confederacy turned to lesser capitalists and speculators for financial assist…
The Funded Loan and the Alabama Claims
Journal Article The Funded Loan and the Alabama Claims Get access Jay Sexton Jay Sexton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, September 2003, Pages 449–478, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00364 Published: 01 August 2003
Toward a synthesis of foreign relations in the Civil War era, 1848–77
Perhaps the greatest void in the scholarship on U.S. foreign relations is the lack of a synthesis covering the Civil War era, 1848–77. Largely as a result of the crisis of the Union, these years constitute a distinct period in foreign relations that should be treated as a whole. Though sectionalism, party conflict, the Civil War and Reconstruction did not influence foreign policy in a consistent manner, statesmen viewed foreign affairs through a …
The Global View of the United States
In the past decade, ‘internationalizing’ or ‘globalizing’ American history has become the mantra of the historical profession. This essay reviews this new body of literature that situates American history within a global framework, searches for connections between the United States and the rest of the world, and explores how American practices and culture have been exported. The ‘globalizing’ project, it shall be argued, has helped historians mov…
The United States, the Cuban Rebellion, and the Multilateral Initiative of 1875
Journal Article The United States, the Cuban Rebellion, and the Multilateral Initiative of 1875 Get access Jay Sexton Jay Sexton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2006, Pages 335–365, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2006.00559.x Published: 08 May 2006
Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865–1890
Andre M. Fleche. The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
Journal Article Andre M. Fleche. The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict. Get access Andre M. Fleche. The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2012. Pp. xii, 204. $39.95. Jay Sexton Jay Sexton Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present
In this forcefully argued comparative history, Julian Go refutes exceptionalist interpretations of American imperialism. In the crosshairs are scholars who deny the existence of empire in American history, as well as those who contend that the American Empire has been more progressive and liberal than the empires of Old World powers due to the anticolonial political traditions of the United States. Rather than viewing the American Empire as somet…
Empire's twin: U.S. anti-imperialism from the founding era to the age of terrorism
Karine V. Walther. Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821–1921
There are few if any topics fitting under the broad rubric of “the United States and the world” that are more in need of scholarly attention than the history of the encounters between the U.S. and Islamic societies in the long nineteenth century. Despite the obvious contemporary importance of the topic, the historiography remains surprisingly sparse, though part of the explanation for this can be found in the quality of those works that do exist …
William H. Seward, el vapor, y el imperialismo estadounidense, 1850-1875
Este artículo analiza la manera en que William H. Seward adaptó la visión imperial y las políticas de Estados Unidos a la luz de la revolución de la tecnología de vapor a mediados del siglo XIX. La historiografía ha visto a Seward como uno de los arquitectos más importantes del imperio estadounidense, pero lo que no se ha enfatizado de manera apropiada es cómo su legado fue menos en su continuidad con sus antecesores y sucesores y más en cómo int…
From Triumph to Crisis: An American Tradition
It is a privilege to have the opportunity to address you all today. I would like to start with a shout-out to Stuart L. Bernath. I have been a big fan of Bernath ever since I was hunting for a transatlantic Civil War dissertation topic back in grad school. It was then that I first came across Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy, a meticulously researched and perceptive study of maritime law during the Civil Wa…
The National Grange: A Rural Community Resource to Increase the Reach of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the United States
Crossing Empires: Taking U. S. History into Transimperial Terrain
Industry and Geopolitics in the Early U.S. Empire
The imperial turn in the study of the nineteenth century has made an endangered species of scholars that deny the existence of U.S. empire. But with the closure of the old “was the United States in the nineteenth century an empire” debate has come a host of new questions and research avenues. One such line of scholarship seeks to better understand and unpack the U.S. empire’s constitutive parts, geopolitical logic, and political economy. Enter Li…
The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins's American Empire
Where does the United States fit into global histories of modern empire? This essay contends that A.G. Hopkins's depiction of nineteenth century America as the modern world's first postcolonial polity not only imaginatively advances the project of globalising U.S. history, it also reveals the ongoing significance of America to the expansion and development of the British Empire itself. Viewing the British Empire through its deep and diverse conne…
The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion
The Second American Revolution: The Civil War–Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
Gregory Downs advances two broad arguments in this concise but rich book. First, he contends that the sectional crisis in the mid-nineteenth-century United States was a “revolutionary situation” that ultimately led to “the fall of the First American Republic and the rise of a Second Republic founded on a Second Constitution created in a Second American Revolution” (p. 4). Downs details the Republican party's turn toward “bloody constitutionalism”…
The Cambridge History of America and the World
The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental, legal, technological, and other veins of analysis, it places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their pe…
Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 2, 1812-1900
The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Global History
Journal Article The Monroe Doctrine in an Age of Global History Get access Jay Sexton Jay Sexton E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad043, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad043 Published: 07 July 2023
The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History by Aaron W. Marrs (review)
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