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Tomorrow, the world : the birth of U.S. global supremacy /

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For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world's armed superpower, and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Werthe...

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Main Author: Wertheim, Stephen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Internationalism.
United States > Foreign relations > 1933-1945.
United States > Foreign relations.
United States > Military relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Internationalism before "isolationism," 1815-1940
  • World war for world order, May-December 1940
  • The Anglo new order of 1941
  • Instrumental internationalism, 1941-1943
  • The debate that wasn't, 1942-1945.