America Unbound: World War II and the Making of a Superpower

by W. Kimball (Editor)

Overview

Whether World War II made or merely marked the transition of the United States from a major world power to a superpower, the fact remains that America's role in the world around it had undergone a dramatic change. Other nations had long recognized the potential of the United States. They had seen its power exercised regularly in economics, if only sparodically in politics. But World War II, and the landscape it left behind, prompted American leaders and the Congress to conclude that they had to use the nation's strength to protect and advance its interests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349606290
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/15/1992
Series:	The World of the Roosevelts
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction; W.F.Kimball - Power and Superpower: The Impact of Two World Wars on America's International Role; D.Reynolds - U.S. Globalism: The End of the Concept of Europe; D.C.Watt - American Empire, American Raj; W.LaFeber - The Legacy of World War II for American Conventional Military Strategy: Should We Escape It?; R.F.Weigley - American and Wartime Changes in Intelligence; B.F.Smith - Soviet Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Services; H.D.Peake - U.S. Economic Strategy: Wartime Goals, Peacetime Plans; W.F.Kimball - Genocide Treaty Ratification: Ending an American Embarrassment; W.Korey - Notes on Contributors - Index

Editorial Reviews

Nine essays selected and revised from the World War II and the Shaping of Modern America conference at Rutgers University (no date noted), explore theories of why, at the end of World War II, the United States government decided to exert its military power to protect its interests worldwide, rather than sometime before or after, or not at all. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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