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In the Shadow of the Garrison State : America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy
War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gir...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history, Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400842919 |