@article{324249,
      note = {"America's foreign policy from Its earliest days to the  dawn of the twentieth century"--Cover.},
      author = {Kagan, Robert.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/324249},
      title = {Dangerous nation /},
      publisher = {Vintage Books,},
      abstract = {A reevaluation of America's place in the world from the  colonial era to the turn of the twentieth century.  Foreign-relations expert Kagan strips away the myth of  America's isolationist tradition and reveals a more  complicated reality: that Americans have been increasing  their global power and influence steadily for the past four  centuries. Even from the time of the Puritans, he reveals,  America was no shining "city upon a hill" but an engine of  commercial and territorial expansion that drove Native  Americans, as well as French, Spanish, Russian, and  ultimately even British power, from the North American  continent. Even before the birth of the nation, Americans  believed they were destined for global leadership.  Underlying their ambitions, Kagan argues, was a set of  ideas and ideals about the world and human nature.},
      recid = {324249},
      pages = {527 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2007},
}