Promise and peril : America at the dawn of a global age /
Spreading democracy abroad or taking care of business at home is a tension as current as the war in Afghanistan and as old as America itself. Tracing the history of isolationist and internationalist ideas from the 1890s through the 1930s, Nichols reveals unexpected connections among individuals and...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2011.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the ostrich and the eagle
- New world power
- A better nation morally
- Toward a transnational America
- The powerful mediating neutral
- Voices of the people
- The irreconcilables
- New internationalism
- Conclusion: the intricate balance.