America's half-century:United States foreign policy in the Cold War
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Published: |
Johns Hopkins University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Baltimore |
Publication Dates: | c1989. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
The American moment |
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Carrier Form: | xiii, 273 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0801838762 (alk. paper) 0801838770 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | D871 |
CLC: | D871.29 |
Call Number: | D871.29/M131/ |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-261) and index. The analytic framework: the world-system, hegemony, and domestic power -- Seeking supremacy: the historical origins of American hegemony, 1895-1945 -- Cold war on many fronts, 1945-1946 -- The crisis of the new order, 1947-1950 -- Militarization and third world integration, 1950-1956 -- Hegemony at high tide, 1957-1967 -- Dissent, detente, and decline, 1968-1976 -- The Carter cold war, 1977-1980 -- The Reagan era and the future of hegemony. |