American Empire and Its Expansion

Dipak Basu () and Victoria Miroshnik ()
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Dipak Basu: Nagasaki University
Victoria Miroshnik: Reitaku University

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Economic and Political Dangers of Globalization, 2021, pp 173-205 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract American empireAmerican Empire of Britain was started in fifteenth century and subsequently when Britain defeated both France and Spain to expand its American empire. The profit came from the sugar and cotton plantations and slave trade. This chapter explains how the American empire gave Britain these profits and after the independence of the American empire, how the US continued with the colonization process in Latin America through various multinational companies, and how the profits from these empires contributed to the development of American capitalism.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79895-6_5

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