Download : 217 American policymakers pursued an aggressive agenda to extend U.S. influence around the globe through control of economic markets, reliance on nation-building, and, where necessary, provision of arms to allied forces. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony–covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance. Format : PDF, Mobi Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Beyond what was on display, the United States had also built a formidable diplomatic and clandestine apparatus. In 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation’s leaders to create an American Century. Examining the evolution of the United States since 1890, The Rise and Fall of the American Century chronicles the varying mood of the country through its changing presidencies, from the rise of the metropolis and Teddy Roosevelt in the 1890s to the turbulent era of the Bush administration at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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By 1968, it seemed that all the United States had to offer to allies and non-hostile nations was convenient military might, nuclear deterrence, and the uncertainty of détente.

Read : 1006, Author : Martin Walker It also acknowledges the persistent challenges the U.S. has faced and continues to face--inequalities of race, gender, and income that contradict its vision of itself as "a land of opportunity."

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Download : 323 In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century.

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Download : 230 General Douglas MacArthur has been hailed as the greatest soldier in American history. Read : 1330, Author : Scott E. Casper In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power–from the 1890s through the Cold War–and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books. They included "foreign devils" who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writin, The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. In The Shadows Of The American Century also available in docx and mobi.

Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself.

Format : PDF, Kindle File Size : 28.23 MB The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent. Download : 363 Download In The Shadows Of The American Century eBook in PDF, EPUB, Mobi.

McCoy devotes his final chapter to these questions, boldly laying out a series of scenarios that could lead to the end of Washington’s world domination by 2030. Format : PDF, ePub, Mobi Read : 1324, Author : Karl E. Meyer Read : 560, Author : Steven Schlossstein Read : 151, Author : Maxim Lieber File Size : 31.2 MB

A distinguished combat soldier during World War I and an innovative educator at West Point in the 1920s, MacArthur became the army's chief of staff during the Great Depression.

By analyzing the shifting moods and social and political upheavals (both at home and abroad) and the United States's reactions to these events, the book seeks to understand how the country both achieved its vision for itself in some ways but failed to realize it in others.

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Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. Meanwhile, China is emerging as the world’s economic powerhouse, poised to integrate the ‘world island’ stretching from Shanghai to Madrid and lay claim to the South China Sea. Read In The Shadows Of The American Century … Introduction, Parts 1 and II Discussion Readings: Jack A. Goldstone “The New Population Bomb” (Posted on Canvas) Howard W. French, “The Next Empire” (Posted on …

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The scope of this book reaches from the beginnings of America's global presence, in the Spanish-American war of 1898, to the dominance, at the end of the twentieth century, of its military force, economic systems, culture and complex, contradictory values.

The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginativ. Download : 388 File Size : 32.28 MB For new customers we sometimes need processing time from 1 to 24 hours to complete the order.

But in the post-World-War-II era proponents of the American Century faced a daunting task. Download : 331 Note: You can download after payment. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China.

Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. Read : 1128, Author : Charles Quist-Adade

File Size : 90.21 MB MacArthur and the American Century assembles for the first time a nuanced and full scrutiny of MacArthur's entire career. Download : 939

Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity.

File Size : 83.98 MB The book's epilogue discusses important economic and political events through 2008, including the financial crisis and the 2008 Presidential Election. His stand against the Japanese following Pearl Harbor made him a national hero, and his subsequent campaign against Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific only added to his reputation. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement.

Format : PDF, ePub, Mobi Format : PDF, Docs A review of Alfred W. McCoy's In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power published by Haymarket Books, 2017. Format : PDF, ePub, Docs

Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures.