Past Imperfect: Alternative Essays in American History. from reconstruction to the presentBlanche Wiesen Cook, Alice Kessler-Harris, Ronald Radosh Knopf, 1973 - 352 pages |
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... Asia WALTER LaFEBER Walter Lafeber , the distinguished Professor of History at Cornell University , is author of The New Empire and the revisionist America , Russia and the Cold War . In the following two short articles , LaFeber ...
... Asia WALTER LaFEBER Walter Lafeber , the distinguished Professor of History at Cornell University , is author of The New Empire and the revisionist America , Russia and the Cold War . In the following two short articles , LaFeber ...
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... Asia . Both Democratic and Republican administrations between 1893 and 1910 chose the second alternative . To implement this crucial decision , the United States annexed the Philippines in order to possess strategic bases close to the Asian ...
... Asia . Both Democratic and Republican administrations between 1893 and 1910 chose the second alternative . To implement this crucial decision , the United States annexed the Philippines in order to possess strategic bases close to the Asian ...
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... Asia because " there is a tremendous new opening here for realizing the dream of a great society of Asia , not just here at home , " the Vice President ignored a double historical lesson : two centuries of American expansion into Asia ...
... Asia because " there is a tremendous new opening here for realizing the dream of a great society of Asia , not just here at home , " the Vice President ignored a double historical lesson : two centuries of American expansion into Asia ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Origins of American Imperialism | 65 |
The Seventh Power ERNEST R MAY 68 Why the United States Went | 92 |
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