America, war, and power
Subtitle: defining the state, 1775-2005
By: [edited by] Lawrence Sondhaus and A. James Fuller.
Contributors: Fuller, A. James.; Sondhaus, Lawrence, 1958-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415772143
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History; War and society -- United States -- History; United States -- History, Military
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Perspectives on American power and empire / A. James Fuller; title: Defining a new empire : the new power takes shape, 1775-1815 / Jeremy Black; title: The United States as rogue state : gunboat persuasion, citizen marauders, and the limits of antebellum American imperialism / Robert E. May; title: Billy Yank and Johnny Reb take on the world : Civil War veterans' views of war, liberty, and empire / Carol Reardon; title: Defining Eisenhower's America : war, power, and race relations, 1941-1961 / Edward O. Frantz; title: Cold War perceptions and the American experience of war / R. William Ayres; title: From Vietnam to Iraq : the first television war and its legacies / Chester Pach; title: Global war and the foundations of US systemic leadership / William R. Thompson; title: Domestic challenges to American hegemony / Steven W. Hook; title: Soft power, hard power, and the Pax Americana / Lawrence Sondhaus.