A nation like all others : a brief history of American foreign relations /
In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation's birth through the Obama administration, Warren I. Cohen confronts the concept of American exceptionalism. A Nation Like All Others offers a brisk, argumentative history that decries the lack of moral imagination in Am...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- To create a nation
- A not quite perfect union
- A rising imperial power
- Civil War
- The new empire
- Teddy Roosevelt and the great power game
- To make the world safe for democracy
- World leadership
- Franklin Roosevelt leads the nation to war
- Origins of the Cold War
- The Korean War as a turning point
- New leaders and new arenas
- On the brink of nuclear war
- Vietnam and the lessons of great power arrogance
- The quest for detente
- The Reagan surprise-enter Gorbachev
- The new world order
- The vulcans rise-and fall
- The Obama promise
- Last thoughts.