Title The American ascendancy : how the United States gained and wielded global dominance / by Michael H. Hunt.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series	H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
	H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-385) and index.
Contents	Introduction : Framing the question -- 1. Nineteenth-century foundations -- 2. Grand projects, 1898-1920 -- 3. The American way in a fragmenting world, 1921-1940 -- 4. Reaching for geopolitical dominance, 1941-1968 -- 5. In the American image, 1941-1968 -- 6. The Third-World challenge, 1941-1968 -- 7. Disoriented giant, 1968-1991 -- 8. The neoliberal triumph, 1991- -- Conclusion : Hegemony in question -- Notes -- A guide to the literature -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject	United States -- Foreign relations -- 19th century.
	United States.
	International relations.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009.
Chronological Term	2001-2009
Subject	Hegemony -- United States -- History.
	Hegemony.
	History.
	International relations -- History.
	Geopolitics.
	Geopolitics.
	World history.
	World history.
ISBN	0807830909 cloth alkaline paper
	9780807830901 cloth alkaline paper