The American Ascendancy

Author : Michael H. Hunt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807830909
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Ascendancy written by Michael H. Hunt and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical study that looks at America's path to global preeminence examines such key elements as wealth, confidence, and leadership in its rise to power, from the nineteenth century to today, and offers insight into the nation's problematic role in the modern-day world and options for the future.

Author : Michael H. Hunt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807830909
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Ascendancy written by Michael H. Hunt and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical study that looks at America's path to global preeminence examines such key elements as wealth, confidence, and leadership in its rise to power, from the nineteenth century to today, and offers insight into the nation's problematic role in the modern-day world and options for the future.

Author : Charles S. Maier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674265742
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among Empires written by Charles S. Maier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? A preeminent American historian addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity. This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior. Eschewing the standard focus on current U.S. foreign policy and the recent spate of pro- and anti-empire polemics, Charles S. Maier uses comparative history to test the relevance of a concept often invoked but not always understood. Marshaling a remarkable array of evidence—from Roman, Ottoman, Moghul, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and British experience—Maier outlines the essentials of empire throughout history. He then explores the exercise of U.S. power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, carefully analyzing its economic and strategic sources and the nation’s relationship to predecessors and rivals. To inquire about empire is to ask what the United States has become as a result of its wealth, inventiveness, and ambitions. It is to confront lofty national aspirations with the realities of the violence that often attends imperial politics and thus to question both the costs and the opportunities of the current U.S. global ascendancy. With learning, dispassion, and clarity, Among Empires offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power. It confirms that the issue of empire must be a concern of every citizen.

Author : Jenifer Van Vleck
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674727320
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Air written by Jenifer Van Vleck and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the flights of the Wright brothers through the mass journeys of the jet age, airplanes inspired Americans to reimagine their nation’s place within the world. Now, Jenifer Van Vleck reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States’ rise to global preeminence in the twentieth century. As U.S. military and economic influence grew, the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to carry and deliver American power across the globe and to sell the very idea of the “American Century” to the public at home and abroad. Invented on American soil and widely viewed as a symbol of national greatness, the airplane promised to extend the frontiers of the United States “to infinity,” as Pan American World Airways president Juan Trippe said. As it accelerated the global circulation of U.S. capital, consumer goods, technologies, weapons, popular culture, and expertise, few places remained distant from the influence of Wall Street and Washington. Aviation promised to secure a new type of empire—an empire of the air instead of the land, which emphasized access to markets rather than the conquest of territory and made the entire world America’s sphere of influence. By the late 1960s, however, foreign airlines and governments were challenging America’s control of global airways, and the domestic aviation industry hit turbulent times. Just as the history of commercial aviation helps to explain the ascendance of American power, its subsequent challenges reflect the limits and contradictions of the American Century.

Author : Stanley B. Greenberg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250003679
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Ascendant written by Stanley B. Greenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned pollster who was key advisor to President Clinton Stanley Greenberg reveals how America will be ascendant and how new Democratic presidents can lead a new era of bold reform

Author : Mischa Honeck
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501716204
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Frontier Is the World written by Mischa Honeck and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The...

Author : American Sociological Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publication of the American Sociological Society written by American Sociological Association and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1,5-25,28 (supplemental list in v.26-27)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publication of the American Sociological Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edgar Gardner Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book The Basis of Ascendancy written by Edgar Gardner Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shaul Mitelpunkt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842239X
Total Pages : 407 pages
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Download or read book Israel in the American Mind written by Shaul Mitelpunkt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country's intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.