> US itself is quite special case in its imperialism which happened much later than the others's (Spain, Netherlands etc). This happened because the US emerged

> US itself is quite special case in its imperialism which happened much later than the others's (Spain, Netherlands etc). This happened because the US emerged and differentiated itself from a colonial power. Also, the imperialism of the US was there from almost the very beginning. A call-to-action of sorts for the colonies was when their British metropolitan counterparts attempted to limit their western expansion. There's a weird belief where people think the US only turned to imperialism around the time of the Spanish-American war, but this was only due to running out of western expansion within their own lands.