The American Ascendancy

by Hunt, Michael H.

• ISBN13: 9780807830901
• ISBN10: 0807830909
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-10
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

What road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, Hunt demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent. In an analytic narrative that illuminates the past rather than indulges in political triumphalism, he provides crucial insights into the country's problematic place in the world today. Hunt charts America's rise to global power from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to a culminating multilayered dominance achieved in the mid-twentieth century. He examines how the United States remade great power relations, fashioned limits for the third world, and shaped our current international economic and cultural order. Hunt concludes by addressing current issues, such as how durable American power really is and what options remain for America's future.

Table of Contents

Dominance

Introduction: Framing the Question

Nineteenth-Century Foundations

Grand Projects, 1898-1920

The American Way in a Fragmenting World, 1921-1940

Reaching for Geopolitical Dominance, 1941-1968

In the American Image, 1941-1968

The Third-World Challenge, 1941-1968

Disoriented Giant, 1968-1991

The Neoliberal Triumph, 1991-

Conclusion: Hegemony in Question

Notes

A Guide to the Literature

Acknowledgments

Index

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