Blessed among Nations How the World Made America

Name: Blessed among Nations How the World Made America
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ISBN: 9780809030477

ISBN-10: 0809030470

ISBN-13: 9780809030477

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Authors: Eric Rauchway

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Nineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional. On the back of European money and immigration, America became an empire with considerable skill at conquest but little experience administering other people’s, or its own, affairs, which it preferred to leave to the energies of private enterprise. The nation’s resulting state institutions and traditions left America immune to the trends of national development and ever after unable to persuade other peoples to follow its example. nbsp; In this concise, argumentative book, Eric Rauchway traces how, from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, the world allowed the United States to become unique and the consequent dangers we face to this…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Eric Rauchway is University Lecturer in American History at the University of Oxford.



Introduction



Globalization and America



Capital



Labor



Welfare



Warfare



Americanness on Trial


Conclusion


Appendix


A Note on Motive, Method, and Metaphor


Notes


Notes and Sources for Figures and Tables


Index