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Promise and Peril : America at the Dawn of a Global Age.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (464 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061187
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Promise and PerilDDC classification:
  • 327.73
LOC classification:
  • E744
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Ostrich and the Eagle -- 1. New World Power -- 2. A Better Nation Morally -- 3. Toward a Transnational America -- 4. The Powerful Mediating Neutral -- 5. Voices of the People -- 6. The Irreconcilables -- 7. New Internationalism -- Conclusion: The Intricate Balance -- Strains of Isolationism -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Ostrich and the Eagle -- 1. New World Power -- 2. A Better Nation Morally -- 3. Toward a Transnational America -- 4. The Powerful Mediating Neutral -- 5. Voices of the People -- 6. The Irreconcilables -- 7. New Internationalism -- Conclusion: The Intricate Balance -- Strains of Isolationism -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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