In the Shadow of the Garrison State : America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy /
War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gir...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (381 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400842919 (electronic bk.) 1400842913 (electronic bk.) |