America's half-century:United States foreign policy in the Cold War

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McCormick Thomas J
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press,
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.