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American Umpire
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
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Description for American Umpire
Hardback. Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned broad approval, and violating them as well. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 240 x 32. Weight in Grams: 790.
Commentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, and often a destructive empire. Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that, because of its unusual federal structure, America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned collective approval.
This provocative reinterpretation traces America’s role in the world from the days of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to the present. Cobbs Hoffman argues that the United States has been the pivot of a transformation that began outside its borders and before its founding, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
790g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674055476
SKU
V9780674055476
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About Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Elizabeth Cobbs (Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman) holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University. A prizewinning historian, novelist, and documentary filmmaker, she is the author of The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers, American Umpire, The Hamilton Affair (a New York Times bestseller), and The Tubman Command.
Reviews for American Umpire
[A] wholly engaging analysis of U.S. history… One of the book’s underlying themes is a convincing critique of the depiction of the U.S. as an empire. In doing this, Cobbs Hoffman lends the long lens of history to contemporary debates on U.S. foreign policymaking… A key strength of this book is that it successfully embeds the founding and unfolding history ... Read more