The Empire Trap : : The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 / / Noel Maurer.
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involv...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (568 p.) :; 34 line illus. 18 tables. 1 map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One. Introduction
- Two. Avoiding the Trap
- Three. Setting the Trap
- Four. The Trap Closes
- Five. Banana Republicanism
- Six. Escaping by Accident
- Seven. Falling Back In
- Eight .The Empire Trap and the Cold War
- Nine. The Success of the Empire Trap
- Ten. Escaping by Design?
- Eleven. The Empire Trap in the Twenty-first Century
- Notes
- Index