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_b.W5325 2020
100 1 _aWertheim, Stephen
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245 1 0 _aTomorrow, the world :
_bthe birth of U.S. global supremacy /
_cStephen Wertheim
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2020
300 _a262 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm
386 _mGender group:
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_aMen
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386 _mNationality/regional group:
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_aAmericans
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386 _mOccupational/field of activity group:
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_aHistorians
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520 _a"For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world's armed superpower-and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation's new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore"--
_cProvided by publisher
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
651 7 _aUnited States
_xMilitary relations
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