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Promise and peril : America at the dawn of a global age
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- Creator
- Christopher McKnight Nichols
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 445 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674049845, 9780674061187, 9780674049840, 0674061187
- OCLC
- on1054878134, ocn754841336, ocn676725368, on1047003090, on1024044166, on1041790894, on1037980578, on1042107855, on1046611026, ocn979574296, on1049683665
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-421) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Isolationism -- United States -- History.
- Geopolitics -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1865-1921.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1921-1923.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1923-1929.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1929-1933.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.