@article{1478852, author = {Ninkovich, Frank A,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478852}, title = {Global Dawn : The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865-1890 /}, abstract = {Why did the United States become a global power? Frank Ninkovich shows that a cultural predisposition for thinking in global terms blossomed in the late nineteenth century, making possible the rise to world power as American liberals of the time took a wide-ranging interest in the world. Of little practical significance during a period when isolationism reigned supreme in U.S. foreign policy, this rich body of thought would become the cultural foundation of twentieth-century American internationalism.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054370}, recid = {1478852}, pages = {1 online resource}, }