| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865–1900. By Eric T. L. Love. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xxii, 245 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2900-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5565-0.)

The strength of this study is its engaging historical narrative, written with a lively style and a sharp sense for the colorful anecdote. Eric T. L. Love demonstrates an unfailing ability to find just the right quotation from a politician's speech or a newspaper editor's column to set the tone of the time. The chapters on the United States diplomatic struggles, at home and abroad, to secure the annexation of Santo Domingo, Hawaii, and the Philippines provide an excellent, well-researched synthesis clearly well versed in the diplomatic literature of this era. The author has carefully examined government documents, manuscript collections, memoirs of political leaders and diplomats, editorials of contemporary journalists, and articles and published speeches of leading figures of the day. His analysis of the discussion of race by the key expansionists of the late nineteenth century offers a remarkably fresh and original focus to stories that have been told and retold many times by several generations of scholars.

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