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The global republic : America's inadvertent rise to world power /

"One of the preeminent intellectual historians of our time, Ninkovich delivers here his most ambitious and sweeping book to date. He argues that historically the United States has been driven not by a belief in its destiny or its special character but rather by a need to survive the forces of g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ninkovich, Frank A., 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Globalization.
Exceptionalism.
International relations.
United States.
1900 - 1999
Table of Contents:
  • Provincial prelude
  • Global society and the challenge to exceptionalism
  • Gaining entrĂ©e: the United States joins the club
  • The Wilsonian anomaly; or, the three faces of Wilsonianism
  • Restarting global society in the 1920s
  • The war for international society: the coming of World War II
  • Economics versus politics in the reinvention of international society
  • Ideology and culture as ingredients of the Cold War
  • Americanization, globalization, and the end of the Cold War
  • Global aftermath
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Appendix: historians and exceptionalism.