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Book SynopsisFor decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world's stage. The country's economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy, and its dominant position in international institutions tend to be seen as the result of a long-standing, deliberate drive to become a major global force. This book deals with this topic.
Trade Review"Marvelous' is the word to characterize this book. It is a marvel of insight, reflection, and analysis, Displaying the erudition. depth, and wit that readers have long since come to expect from him. Ninkovich has produced a strikingly original account the United States' two centuries of experience in the world. He combines ascents to heights of philosophical discourse with consistent exercise in down-to-earth skepticism toward ideologies and intellectual constructs, including his own emphasis on globalism. No one who cares about America and the world can afford not to read this book." (John Milton Cooper, author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography)"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Provincial Prelude Chapter Two: Global Society and the Challenge to Exceptionalism Chapter Three: Gaining Entree: The United States Joins the Club Chapter Four: The Wilsonian Anomaly; or, The Three Faces of Wilsonianism Chapter Five: Restarting Global Society in the 1920s Chapter Six: The War for International Society: The Coming of World War II Chapter Seven: Economics versus Politics in the Reinvention of International Society Chapter Eight: Ideology and Culture as Ingredients of the Cold War Chapter Nine: Americanization, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War Chapter Ten: Global Aftermath Concluding Thoughts Appendix: Historians and Exceptionalism Notes Index
