American Ascendancy How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance

Name: American Ascendancy How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance
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ISBN: 9780807859636

ISBN-10: 080785963X

ISBN-13: 9780807859636

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael H. Hunt

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A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created by recent U.S. policy: What road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, Michael Hunt demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent. In an analytic narrative that illuminates the past rather than indulges in political triumphalism, he provides crucial insights into the country's problematic place in the world today.Hunt charts America's rise to global power from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to a culminating multilayered dominance achieved in the mid-twentieth century that has led to unanticipated constraints…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.342

Michael H. Hunt is Emerson Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author or editor of eleven books, including The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance and A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives.



Introduction: Framing the Question



Nineteenth-Century Foundations



Grand Projects, 1898-1920



The American Way in a Fragmenting World, 1921-1940



Reaching for Geopolitical Dominance, 1941-1968



In the American Image, 1941-1968



The Third-World Challenge, 1941-1968



Disoriented Giant, 1968-1991



The Neoliberal Triumph, 1991-


Conclusion: Hegemony in Question


Notes


A Guide to the Literature


Acknowledgments


Index