Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Av David Mayers, David (Boston University) Mayers

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This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one hundred and fifty years saw the expansion of the United States from fragile republic to transcontinental giant. David Mayers explores the dissenting voices which accompanied this dramatic ascent, focusing on dissenters within the political and military establishment and on the recurrent patterns of dissent that have transcended particular policies and crises. The most stubborn of these sprang from anxiety over the material and political costs of empire while other strands of dissent have been rooted in ideas of exigent justice, realpolitik, and moral duties existing beyond borders. Such dissent is evident again in the contemporary world when the US occupies the position of preeminent global power. Professor Mayers's study reminds us that America's path to power was not as straightforward as it might now seem.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-02-15
Mått152 x 228 x 27 mm
Vikt734 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor460
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521694186

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Professor David Mayers teaches at Boston University, where he holds joint appointment sin the History and Political Science departments. His previous publications include GEORGE KENNAN and the DILEMMAS of US FOREIGN POLICY (1988); THE AMBASSADORS and AMERICA'S SOVIET POLICY (1995); Wars and Peace: The FUTURE AMERICANS ENVISIONED, 1861–1991 (1998). His new research underway deals with FDR's wartime diplomacy.

'Professor David Mayers of Boston University brings to life the many establishment dissenters in the history of American foreign policy in the 19th and 20th century. Superbly researched and written in an engaging style … This is a wonderful antidote to the many works that present Americans consistently united behind an expansive foreign policy.' Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Graduate Institute of International Studies and author of The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy