| Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America Contributor(s): Rauchway, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809030470 ISBN-13: 9780809030477 Publisher: Hill & Wang OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: Nineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional. On the back of European money and immigration, America became an empire with considerable skill at conquest but little experience administering other people's, or its own, affairs, which it preferred to leave to the energies of private enterprise. The nation's resulting state institutions and traditions left America immune to the trends of national development and ever after unable to persuade other peoples to follow its example. In this concise, argumentative book, Eric Rauchway traces how, from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, the world allowed the United States to become unique and the consequent dangers we face to this very day. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Political Science | Globalization - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 973 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Nineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional. On the back of European money and immigration, America became an empire with considerable skill at conquest but little experience administering other people's, or its own, affairs, which it preferred to leave to the energies of private enterprise. The nation's resulting state institutions and traditions left America immune to the trends of national development and ever after unable to persuade other peoples to follow its example. In this concise, argumentative book, Eric Rauchway traces how, from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, the world allowed the United States to become unique and the consequent dangers we face to this very day. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rauchway, Eric: - A professor of history at the University of California, Davis, Eric Rauchway is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America (H&W, 2003) and Blessed Among Nations (H&W, 2006). He lives in northern California. |