In The Shadows Of The American Century
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download In The Shadows Of The American Century PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get In The Shadows Of The American Century book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
In The Shadows Of The American Century
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Alfred W. McCoy
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-01-25
In The Shadows Of The American Century written by Alfred W. McCoy and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with History categories.
For a decade America’s share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world’s manufacturing capacity, nearly half its military forces, and a formidable system of global surveillance and covert operations. But even at its peak it may have been sowing the seeds of its own destruction. Is it realistic to rely on the global order established after World War II, or are we witnessing the changing of the guard, with China emerging as the world’s economic and military powerhouse? America clings to its superpower status, but for how much longer?
From Out Of The Shadows
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Vicki Ruíz
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2008-11-05
From Out Of The Shadows written by Vicki Ruíz and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-05 with History categories.
An anniversary edition of the first full study of Mexican American women in the twentieth century, with new preface
Shadows Of War
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004
Shadows Of War written by Carolyn Nordstrom and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.
The Violent American Century
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : John W. Dower
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2017-03-20
The Violent American Century written by John W. Dower and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-20 with Political Science categories.
“Tells how America, since the end of World War II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match setting the world on fire” (Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist and national security correspondent). World War II marked the apogee of industrialized “total war.” Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious Anglo-American powers. The devastation was catastrophic almost everywhere, with the notable exception of the United States, which exited the strife unmatched in power and influence. The death toll of fighting forces plus civilians worldwide was staggering. The Violent American Century addresses the US-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945—beginning with brutal localized hostilities, proxy wars, and the nuclear terror of the Cold War, and ending with the asymmetrical conflicts of the present day. The military playbook now meshes brute force with a focus on non-state terrorism, counterinsurgency, clandestine operations, a vast web of overseas American military bases, and—most touted of all—a revolutionary new era of computerized “precision” warfare. In contrast to World War II, postwar death and destruction has been comparatively small. By any other measure, it has been appalling—and shows no sign of abating. The author, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, draws heavily on hard data and internal US planning and pronouncements in this concise analysis of war and terror in our time. In doing so, he places US policy and practice firmly within the broader context of global mayhem, havoc, and slaughter since World War II—always with bottom-line attentiveness to the human costs of this legacy of unceasing violence. “Dower delivers a convincing blow to publisher Henry Luce’s benign ‘American Century’ thesis.” —Publishers Weekly
Lengthened Shadows
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Roger Kimball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Lengthened Shadows written by Roger Kimball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
In a series of penetrating reflections on the United States and its institutions in the post-9/11 world, this book offers some answers to questions that people at home and abroad have begun to ask about our country. How did it attain its international preeminence? What exactly is this richest, most powerful of countries made of? Where will its unmatched influence lead? Military historian Frederick Kagan discusses the future of our armed forces and the challenges they will face in defending America's unique position. David B. Hart shows how religion, with all its variety and occasional excess, is "alive and striving in America, with the power to shelter many virtues under its promises of supernatural grace." From the future of the law to the future of higher education, from music to the visual arts, Lengthened Shadows provides a unique situation report on American culture today. Writers and thinkers such as Robert Bork, Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball and Mark Steyn offer a probing assessment of the institutions that organize our lives--their health, their influence and their prospects--at the beginning of what some commentators are calling "the next American century."
The Quest For The Lost Nation
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Sebastian Conrad
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010
The Quest For The Lost Nation written by Sebastian Conrad and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
"Extraordinarily compelling. The Quest for the Lost Nation is a model for comparative history-and should serve as an incentive for a new generation to do more of this kind of work."--Michael Geyer, University of Chicago.
Kissinger S Shadow
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Greg Grandin
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Kissinger S Shadow written by Greg Grandin and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance In his fascinating new book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America—its never-ending wars abroad and political polarization at home—we have to understand Henry Kissinger. Examining Kissinger's own writings, as well as a wealth of newly declassified documents, Grandin reveals how Richard Nixon's top foreign policy advisor, even as he was presiding over defeat in Vietnam and a disastrous, secret, and illegal war in Cambodia, was helping to revive a militarized version of American exceptionalism centered on an imperial presidency. Believing that reality could be bent to his will, insisting that intuition is more important in determining policy than hard facts, and vowing that past mistakes should never hinder future bold action, Kissinger anticipated, even enabled, the ascendance of the neoconservative idealists who took America into crippling wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Going beyond accounts focusing either on Kissinger's crimes or accomplishments, Grandin offers a compelling new interpretation of the diplomat's continuing influence on how the United States views its role in the world.
To Govern The Globe
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Alfred W. McCoy
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2021-11-16
To Govern The Globe written by Alfred W. McCoy and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with History categories.
In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders. During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation’s extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries. After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, the closing chapters use those hard-won insights to peer through the present and into the future. By rendering often-opaque environmental science in lucid prose, the book explains how climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations, born at the start of this century, during the coming decades that will serve as the signposts of their lives—2030, 2050, 2070, and beyond.
The Philippines And Japan In America S Shadow
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Kiichi Fujiwara
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2011
The Philippines And Japan In America S Shadow written by Kiichi Fujiwara and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Japan and the Philippines both spent part of the 20th century under American rule, and the experience left an indelible imprint on both societies. The authors in this volume examine the issue from a wide range of perspectives and suggest a different interpretation.
G Man
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Beverly Gage
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-03-30
G Man written by Beverly Gage and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy Winner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people – many of them communists or racial minorities – did not deserve to be included in that American project. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, Beverly Gage charts Hoover’s rise to power, as he used the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivalled in U.S. history. Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation, and his conservative values ranged from white supremacy to a crusading and politicized interpretation of Christianity. But he was more than a one-dimensional tyrant who strong-armed the country into submission. As FBI director for almost fifty years, he was a confidant, counsellor, and adversary to eight U.S. presidents, four Republicans and four Democrats. His conservative values won him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in office for so long because many people, from the highest reaches of government down to the grassroots, wanted him there. And he has done more to shape the political right today than many presidents. G-Man places Hoover back where he once stood: at the centre of American political history. In telling his story, Gage shines a light on great social and political changes in 20th century America, from policing and civil rights to political culture and ideology. 'Revelatory' New York Times 'Astonishing' The New Yorker 'Masterful…This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work' The Washington Post