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Book America Unbound

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  • Author : Antonio Barrenechea
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 082635758X
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book America Unbound written by Antonio Barrenechea and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead. The encyclopedic novel has particular generic characteristics that serve these writers as a vehicle for the reincorporation of hemispheric histories. Starting with an examination of Moby-Dick as precursor, Barrenechea shows how this narrative genre allows Fuentes, Poulin, and Silko to reflect the interconnected world of today, as well as to dramatize indigenous and colonial values in their narratives. His close attention to written documents, visual representations, and oral traditions in these encyclopedic novels sheds light on their comparative cultural relations and the New World from pole to pole. This study amplifies the scope of "America" across cultures and languages, time and tradition.

Book America Unbound

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  • Author : W. Kimball
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-09-27
  • ISBN : 1137069635
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book America Unbound written by W. Kimball and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book America Unbound

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  • Author : Ivo H. Daalder
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 2008-04-21
  • ISBN : 0470325224
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book America Unbound written by Ivo H. Daalder and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A splendidly illuminating book." —The New York Times Like it or not, George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions once imposed on its freedom of action. In America Unbound, Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay caution that the Bush revolution comes with serious risks–and, at some point, we may find that America’s friends and allies will refuse to follow his lead, leaving the U.S. unable to achieve its goals. This edition has been extensively revised and updated to include major policy changes and developments since the book’s original publication.

Book America Unbound

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  • Author : W. Kimball
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9781349606283
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book America Unbound written by W. Kimball and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America and Europe Adrift

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  • Author : Sotiris Rizas
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2022-01-11
  • ISBN : 1440873690
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book America and Europe Adrift written by Sotiris Rizas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive review of the transatlantic relationship between the United States and Europe, from the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall to the Trump administration. It highlights the primary factors that test the U.S-Europe relationship. America and Europe Adrift highlights the background of the German unification and the reaffirmation of NATO as the framework of U.S. presence in Europe after the end of the Cold War; the NATO enlargement; the Transatlantic Rift in the context of the Iraq War; the economic aspects of transatlantic relations, specifically the rise of Germany's weight in international affairs as a result of the European Monetary Union; and the gradual retrenchment of U.S. power. It focuses on the enduring factors that threaten the transatlantic relationship during the 21st century while also suggesting how that relationship will likely survive: through the United States' continued provision of indispensable security to the rest of the Western world. This book is an essential resource for students of transatlantic relations; graduates in international politics and international history, security studies, and strategic studies; and foreign policy practitioners.

Book Report

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1874
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joint Documents of the State of Michigan

Download or read book Joint Documents of the State of Michigan written by Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House

Download or read book Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House written by Michigan. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents Communicated to the Senate and House of Representatives

Download or read book Documents Communicated to the Senate and House of Representatives written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : Michigan State Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 900 pages

Download or read book Report written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : Michigan State University. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Report written by Michigan State University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America Unbound

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  • Author : Ivo H. Daalder
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 2003-09-30
  • ISBN : 9780815796619
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book America Unbound written by Ivo H. Daalder and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions impose on its freedom of action. He has insisted that an America unbound is a more secure America. How did a man once mocked for knowing little about the world come to be a foreign policy revolutionary? In America Unbound, Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay dismiss claims that neoconservatives have captured the heart and mind of the president. They show that George W. Bush has been no one's puppet. He has been a strong and decisive leader with a coherent worldview that was evident even during the 2000 presidential campaign. Daalder and Lindsay caution that the Bush revolution comes with significant risks. Raw power alone is not enough to preserve and extend America's security and prosperity in the modern world. The United States often needs the help of others to meet the challenges it faces overseas. But Bush's revolutionary impulse has stirred great resentment abroad. At some point, Daalder and Lindsay warn, Bush could find that America's friends and allies refuse to follow his lead. America will then stand alone—a great power unable to achieve its most important goals.

Book Colin Powell

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  • Author : Christopher D. O'Sullivan
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2009-04-16
  • ISBN : 0742565351
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Colin Powell written by Christopher D. O'Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of Powell's career and character reveals several broad themes crucial to American foreign policy and yields insights into the evolution of American foreign and defense policy in the post-Vietnam, post-Cold War eras. This book explains Powell's diplomatic style and its place in the American foreign policy tradition and his involvement in the most important debates over foreign and defense policy during the past two decades.

Book Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House of Representatives

Download or read book Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House of Representatives written by Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Business of War

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  • Author : James A. Tyner
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-11-30
  • ISBN : 1351147544
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Business of War written by James A. Tyner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the cessation of major combat operations in Iraq, approximately 120 people - either contract workers or private soldiers - have been abducted, with one-third being executed. The largest contingent of these workers has been provided by the Philippines. Through a specific, though not exclusive, focus on the Philippines connection, this book considers the myriad ways in which transnational labour migration intersects with the occupation of Iraq. Also examining the role of the USA in the Middle East, the book places the war on terror within the practices of neoliberalism, but also links this with migration issues and argues that it is all part of a larger 'business' of conflict.

Book Energy and US Foreign Policy

Download or read book Energy and US Foreign Policy written by Ahmed Mahdi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for oil can be seen as a defining principle of global US foreign policy, an imperative which has shaped and redefined the practice of American diplomacy, especially in the wake of 9/11, which raised questions about the stability of global oil resources. In "Energy and US Foreign Policy", Ahmed Mahdi relates the military expansion of the world's biggest superpower to its quest to gain guaranteed and secure access to the world's most important commodity. Examining the foreign policy of George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, culminating in the unprecedented military campaigns of the latter, Mahdi demonstrates how and why oil has played a central role in US relations with the wider world. By dissecting the failures of the US to secure its own economic and energy interests, and by demonstrating the devastating impact this has had on the rest of the world, especially in the Middle East, Mahdi offers vital analysis for researchers and students of International Relations, Diplomacy, Security and Energy Studies.

Book Empire for Liberty

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  • Author : Richard H. Immerman
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-05
  • ISBN : 1400834287
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Empire for Liberty written by Richard H. Immerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men who spoke of liberty to shape an American empire How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps? Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism—and in some cases, its crimes—with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Declaration of Independence? Empire for Liberty tells the story of men who used the rhetoric of liberty to further their imperial ambitions, and reveals that the quest for empire has guided the nation's architects from the very beginning--and continues to do so today. Historian Richard Immerman paints nuanced portraits of six exceptional public figures who manifestly influenced the course of American empire: Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Seward, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Foster Dulles, and Paul Wolfowitz. Each played a pivotal role as empire builder and, with the exception of Adams, did so without occupying the presidency. Taking readers from the founding of the republic to the Global War on Terror, Immerman shows how each individual's influence arose from a keen sensitivity to the concerns of his times; how the trajectory of American empire was relentless if not straight; and how these shrewd and powerful individuals shaped their rhetoric about liberty to suit their needs. But as Immerman demonstrates in this timely and provocative book, liberty and empire were on a collision course. And in the Global War on Terror and the occupation of Iraq, they violently collided.