Among empires: American ascendancy and its predecessors

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With learning, dispassion and clarity, this book offers comparisons and an original account of American power. It explores the exercise of US power in the 19th and 20th centuries, analysing its economic and strategic sources and the nation's relationship to predecessors and rivals.

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Full title :Among empires : American ascendancy and its predecessors / Charles S. Maier.

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Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

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Description:1 online resource (373 pages)

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ISBN:9780674040458, 0674040457, 0674025563, 9780674025561, 9780674265745, 0674265742
DOI:10.4159/9780674040458
oclc:on1028045202
LC Classification:E183.7
Dewey Decimal:325/.320973

I: Recurring structures -- The imperial arena -- What is an empire? -- Frontiers -- "Call it peace" -- II: America's turn -- Highland Park and Hiroshima -- Frontiers and forces in the Cold War -- An empire of production -- An empire of consumption -- The vase of Uruk.

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Américains Auslandsbeziehungen Case studies Diplomatic relations États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- … États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- … Förenta staterna -- internationella rel… Förenta staterna -- internationella rel… Grote mogendheden History HISTORY -- 20th Century. -- United Stat… Imperialism Imperialism -- Case studies Imperialism -- historia Imperialism -- History Impérialisme -- Études de cas Impérialisme -- Histoire Imperialismus internationale betrekkingen National characteristics, American