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This fascinating book examines how and why Americans built an informal trading empire and why the British Empire needed to be removed before a Pax Americana could be built. It offers a systematic explanation for the rise of this super empire, and explains in detail how it is governed. -- .

Table of Contents

List of maps
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. What is the Pax Americana?
2. The twentieth-century power-shift
3. Manifest destiny and the rise of American power
4. The British Empire as obstacle to American power
5. Planning for a future Pax Americana
6. Promoting decolonization: de-legitimating European imperial power
7. Getting Britain to deconstruct its empire
8. Cloning America 1: selling ‘development’
9. Cloning America 2: the German/Japan model
10. Cloning America 3: Hollywood and Soft Power
11. The Empire strikes back: 9/11 and beyond
Maps
Select bibliography
Index

Roots of the Pax Americana

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 2/28/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719096686, 978-0719096686
      ISBN10: 0719096685

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This fascinating book examines how and why Americans built an informal trading empire and why the British Empire needed to be removed before a Pax Americana could be built. It offers a systematic explanation for the rise of this super empire, and explains in detail how it is governed. -- .

      Table of Contents

      List of maps
      List of tables
      List of abbreviations
      Acknowledgements
      1. What is the Pax Americana?
      2. The twentieth-century power-shift
      3. Manifest destiny and the rise of American power
      4. The British Empire as obstacle to American power
      5. Planning for a future Pax Americana
      6. Promoting decolonization: de-legitimating European imperial power
      7. Getting Britain to deconstruct its empire
      8. Cloning America 1: selling ‘development’
      9. Cloning America 2: the German/Japan model
      10. Cloning America 3: Hollywood and Soft Power
      11. The Empire strikes back: 9/11 and beyond
      Maps
      Select bibliography
      Index

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