With learning, dispassion and clarity, this book offers comparisons and an original account of American power. It explores the exercise of US power in the 19th and 20th centuries, analysing its economic and strategic sources and the nation's relationship to predecessors and rivals.
Language
English
Pages
373
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Release
April 01, 2006
ISBN
0674021894
ISBN 13
9780674021891
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors
With learning, dispassion and clarity, this book offers comparisons and an original account of American power. It explores the exercise of US power in the 19th and 20th centuries, analysing its economic and strategic sources and the nation's relationship to predecessors and rivals.