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Flight of the eagle : the grand strategies that brought America from colonial dependence to world leadership /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Conrad
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Encounter Books, 2013.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations.
Strategic culture > United States > History.
United States > Foreign relations administration.
Presidents > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The aspirant state, 1754-1833
  • The British and Americans defeat the French in America, 1754-1774
  • The Americans and French defeat the British in America, 1774-1789
  • Launching the new republic in the world, 1789-1809
  • America, master of the hemisphere, 1809-1833
  • The predestined people, 1833-1917
  • The house divided, 1833-1854
  • The agony of the American union, 1854-1865
  • The new birth of freedom, 1865-1898
  • A new great power in the world, 1898-1917
  • The indispensable country, 1917-1951
  • The crisis of democracy: war, isolationism, and depression, 1917-1933
  • Toward America's rendezvous with destiny, 1933-1941
  • The victory of democracy, 1941-1944
  • From world war to cold war, 1945-1951
  • The supreme nation, 1951-1992
  • The red scare and the free world, 1951-1957
  • Peace and prosperity, 1957-1965
  • Vietnam and détente, the beginning of the end of the cold war, 1965-1973
  • To the summit of the world, 1973-1992
  • Epilogue : Waiting for the future, 1992-2011.