The United States and the Second World War : new perspectives on diplomacy, war, and the home front /

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In this text, Piehler and Pash bring together a collection of essays offering an examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the US to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Piehler, G. Kurt, Pash, Sidney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension.
Temas:
1933-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Histoire diplomatique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Diplomatic history
Diplomatic relations
Military participation > American
Social aspects
Social conditions
United States > Foreign relations > 1933-1945.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1933-1945.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1933-1945.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Roosevelt at the Rubicon : the great convoy debate of 1941 / J. Garry Clifford and Robert H. Ferrell
  • Containment, rollback, and the onset of the Pacific War, 1933-1941 / Sidney Pash
  • "In terms of peoples rather than nations" : World War II propaganda and conceptions of U.S. foreign policy / Justin Hart
  • Allotment Annies and other wayward wives : wartime concerns about female disloyalty and the problem of the returned veteran / Ann Pfau
  • General George S. Patton and the war-winning Sherman tank myth / Nicholas D. Molnar
  • Naval gunfire support in Operation Neptune : a reexamination / Barbara Brooks Tomblin
  • Veterans tell their stories and why historians and others listened / G. Kurt Piehler
  • Semper paratus : the U.S. Coast Guard's Flotilla 10 at Omaha Beach / Mark A. Snell
  • American pacifism, the "greatest generation," and World War II / Scott H. Bennett
  • Foreign policy experts as service intellectuals : the American Institute of Pacific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and planning the occupation of Japan during World War II / Yutaka Sasaki
  • Hiroshima and the U.S. peace movement : commemoration of August 6, 1948-1960 / Rieko Asai.

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