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Title
Dangerous nation / Robert Kagan.
Author
Kagan, Robert.
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
ISBN
9780375724916 (pbk.)
0375724915 (pbk.)
0375724915 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Vintage Books, 2007, c2006.
Language
English
Description
527 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
E183.7 .K34 2007
Summary
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.
Note
"America's foreign policy from Its earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century"--Cover.
Originally published: Knopf, c2006.
Originally published: Knopf, c2006.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-506) and index.
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Table of Contents
The first Imperialists
The foreign policy of revolution
Liberalism and expansion
To the farewell address and beyond
"Peaceful conquest"
A republic in the age of monarchy
The foreign policy of slavery
Manifest destinies
Beyond the national interest
War and progress
From power to ambition, from ambition to power
Morality and hegemony.
The foreign policy of revolution
Liberalism and expansion
To the farewell address and beyond
"Peaceful conquest"
A republic in the age of monarchy
The foreign policy of slavery
Manifest destinies
Beyond the national interest
War and progress
From power to ambition, from ambition to power
Morality and hegemony.