Dangerous nation / Robert Kagan.

Dangerous nation / Robert Kagan.

First Vintage Books edition.

9780375724916 (pbk.)
0375724915 (pbk.)

New York : Vintage Books, 2007.

©2006

English

527 pages ; 21 cm

E183.7 .K34 2007

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.

"America's foreign policy from Its earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century"--Cover.
Originally published: Knopf, c2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-506) and index.

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