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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ninkovich, Frank A

Titel

Global Dawn : The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865-1890

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2010]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Why did the United States become a global power? Frank Ninkovich shows that a cultural predisposition for thinking in global terms blossomed in the late nineteenth century, making possible the rise to world power as American liberals of the time took a wide-ranging interest in the world. Of little practical significance during a period when isolationism reigned supreme in U.S. foreign policy, this rich body of thought would become the cultural foundation of twentieth-century American internationalism