{"product_id":"awkward-dominion-9780801495052","title":"Awkward Dominion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAwkward Dominion\u003c\/i\u003e, Frank Costigliola offers a striking interpretation of the emergence of the United States as a world power in the 1920s, a period in which the country faced both burdens and opportunities as a result of the First World War...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCostigliola's book is required reading for all serious students of American-European relations from Versailles to 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Historian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe great virtue of this book—and Costigliola desrves congratulations for it— is the intensive use and careful evaluation of new materials. It has intelligent, often acute comments about arms limitation, reparations, and the Kellogg-Briand pact.... This is a fine piece of research by a scholar from whom much will be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e * International History Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a subtle and imaginative contribution to the increasingly accepted view that American foreign relations in the 1920s do not fit a clownish, isolationist stereotype. The author succeeds in going beyond the formal actions of governments to deal with the ambivalent response to American culture and economic power.\u003c\/p\u003e * Foreign Affairs *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405178970455,"sku":"9780801495052","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801495052.jpg?v=1730489001","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/awkward-dominion-9780801495052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}