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The American Ascendancy
Michael H. Hunt
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Description for The American Ascendancy
Paperback. What road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, this book demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 illustrations, 1 table, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
This book features the 21st-century United States through the lens of global history. What road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, 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. He examines how the United States remade great power ... Read more
This book features the 21st-century United States through the lens of global history. What road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, 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. He examines how the United States remade great power ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807859636
SKU
V9780807859636
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About Michael H. Hunt
MICHAEL H. HUNT is Everett H. Emerson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of nine previous books, including The World Transformed: 1945 to the Present; Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968; and Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Reviews for The American Ascendancy
"Should be on the desk of every candidate for national office." - American Historical Review "Explains how a weak and peripheral New World republic turned itself into the preeminent power of the twentieth century." - Foreign Affairs"