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Path of Empire
Panama and the California Gold Rush
Inbunden, 2007
739 kr
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Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest …
Universe Unraveling
American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos
Inbunden, 2012
604 kr
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During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical …
Screening Enlightenment
Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Inbunden, 2010
1756 kr
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During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945–1952), U.S. film studios—in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers—launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this …
Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Inbunden, 2008
765 kr
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The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American …
Radicals on the Road
Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism During the Vietnam Era
Inbunden, 2013
1704 kr
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Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout …
Imperfect Strangers
Americans, Arabs, and U.S.–Middle East Relations in the 1970s
Av Salim Yaqub
Inbunden, 2016
401 kr
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In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With …
Black Yanks in the Pacific
Race in the Making of American Military Empire After World War II
Inbunden, 2010
607 kr
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By the end of World War II, many black citizens viewed service in the segregated American armed forces with distaste if not disgust. Meanwhile, domestic racism and Jim Crow, ongoing Asian struggles against European colonialism, and prewar calls for Afro-Asian solidarity had generated considerable …
Business of Empire
United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Inbunden, 2011
739 kr
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"Jason M. Colby has researched and analyzed his topic―the business of empire―well. He exposes the intertwining of imperialism, expansion, racism, and corporate power. The Business of Empire is an insightful story about the interaction of U.S. overseas business and the U.S. and Central American …
Militarism in a Global Age
Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States Before World War I
Av Dirk Bönker
Inbunden, 2012
783 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, …
Cauldron of Resistance
Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam
Inbunden, 2013
651 kr
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In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided …
Redemption and Revolution
American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century
Av Motoe Sasaki
Inbunden, 2016
598 kr
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In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Most often, their destination was China, which became a major mission field for the U.S. Protestant missionary movement as the …
Union Forever
The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age
Av David Sim
Inbunden, 2013
680 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question—the governance of the island of Ireland—demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the …
With Sails Whitening Every Sea
Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
Inbunden, 2014
659 kr
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Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial …
Empire's Twin
U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism
Inbunden, 2015
1704 kr
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Across the course of American history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the United States. The Declaration of Independence, after all, is an anti-imperial document, cataloguing the sins of the metropolitan …
From Development to Dictatorship
Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
Inbunden, 2014
1704 kr
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During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s' Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important …
Democracy in Exile
Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual
Inbunden, 2018
1756 kr
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In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner explores the life of Hans Speier, one of the most significant figures in the history of US defense policy. Bessner traces Speier's intellectual development from Weimar Germany to the Cold War United States, revealing how his European roots shaped the …
Christian Imperialism
Converting the World in the Early American Republic
Inbunden, 2015
1655 kr
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In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire …
White World Order, Black Power Politics
The Birth of American International Relations
Inbunden, 2015
490 kr
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"Defying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice."â• Carol Polsgrove â• American Historical ReviewRacism and …
White World Order, Black Power Politics
The Birth of American International Relations
Häftad, 2017
344 kr
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"Defying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice."â• Carol Polsgrove â• American Historical ReviewRacism and …
Path of Empire
Panama and the California Gold Rush
Häftad, 2009
387 kr
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Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest …
Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Häftad, 2009
233 kr
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The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American …
Radicals on the Road
Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism During the Vietnam Era
Häftad, 2013
475 kr
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Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout …
Business of Empire
United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Häftad, 2013
417 kr
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"Jason M. Colby has researched and analyzed his topic―the business of empire―well. He exposes the intertwining of imperialism, expansion, racism, and corporate power. The Business of Empire is an insightful story about the interaction of U.S. overseas business and the U.S. and Central American …
Empire's Twin
U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism
Häftad, 2015
456 kr
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Across the course of American history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the United States. The Declaration of Independence, after all, is an anti-imperial document, cataloguing the sins of the metropolitan …
Out of Oakland
Black Panther Party Internationalism During the Cold War
Inbunden, 2017
1704 kr
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Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing. â• Diplomatic HistoryIn Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members, including Assata …
From Development to Dictatorship
Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
Häftad, 2018
390 kr
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During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s' Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important …
Out of Oakland
Black Panther Party Internationalism During the Cold War
Häftad, 2017
256 kr
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Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing. â• Diplomatic HistoryIn Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members, including Assata …
Screening Enlightenment
Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Häftad, 2017
475 kr
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During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945–1952), U.S. film studios—in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers—launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this …
Principles in Power
Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy
Inbunden, 2020
636 kr
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Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United States government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critical of U.S. power during the Cold War. Walker …
Oil Money
Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988
Inbunden, 2021
665 kr
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In Oil Money, David M. Wight offers a new framework for understanding the course of Middle East–US relations during the 1970s and 1980s: the transformation of the US global empire by Middle East petrodollars. During these two decades, American, Arab, and Iranian elites reconstituted the primary …
