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In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America´s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy
Aaron L. Friedberg
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Paperback. Argues that anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 416 pages, 7 tables, 21line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 570.
War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history, Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence. Drawing ... Read more
War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history, Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence. Drawing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691048901
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V9780691048901
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About Aaron L. Friedberg
Aaron L. Friedberg is Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director of the Research Program in International Security at Princeton University. He is author of The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 (Princeton).
Reviews for In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America´s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000 "An engaging revisionist history of American society during the Cold War... Friedberg performs a real service: reminding us that democracies do a pretty good job of keeping peace as well."
Victor Davis Hanson, The Weekly Standard "[A] lucid and meticulously documented study... Though Friedberg's close analysis focuses on the period 1945-1960, it provides ... Read more
Victor Davis Hanson, The Weekly Standard "[A] lucid and meticulously documented study... Though Friedberg's close analysis focuses on the period 1945-1960, it provides ... Read more