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America in the World : A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror /

"How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it partner with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? Americans have been grappling with questions like these throughout the nation's history,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Preston, Andrew, 1973-, Lawrence, Mark Atwood, Engel, Jeffrey A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the long American century
  • 1. Motives of expansion
  • 2. Imperial America: war with Spain and the Philippines
  • 3. Varieties of empire
  • 4. The rise and fall of Wilsonianism
  • 5. Isolation and intervention
  • 6. World War II
  • 7. The beginning of the Cold War
  • 8. The Korean War and the Cold War of the 1950s
  • 9. The nationalist challenge
  • 10. Years of crisis
  • 11. The Vietnam War
  • 12. The era of detente
  • 13. Escalating and ending the Cold War
  • 14. Globalization after the Cold War
  • 15. The age of terror.