In the shadows of the American century : : the rise and decline of US global power / / Alfred W. McCoy.
The award-winning historian delivers a "brilliant and deeply informed" analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America�...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chicago, Illinois : : Haymarket Books,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dispatch Books
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (361 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. US global power and me
- Part I. Understanding the US empire
- Ch. 1. The world island and the rise of America
- Ch. 2. "Our S.O.B.s" : America and the autocrats
- Ch. 3. Covert netherworld
- Part II. US strategies for survival.
- Ch. 4. A global surveillance state
- Ch. 5. Torture and the eclipse of empires
- Ch. 6. Beyond bayonets and battleships : the Pentagon's wonder weapons
- Part III. Dynamics of US decline
- Ch. 7. Grandmasters of the great game
- Ch. 8. Five scenarios for the end of the American century.