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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Page 178
... military preparedness was never too clearly drawn . Despite the prevailing pacifist isolationism of the early thirties , with which the Roosevelt administration went along , there was never any reason to doubt the President's own ...
... military preparedness was never too clearly drawn . Despite the prevailing pacifist isolationism of the early thirties , with which the Roosevelt administration went along , there was never any reason to doubt the President's own ...
Page 228
... military power instead of upon common economic and political interests ? If so , the United States must step up its investment of military resources in the Pacific , not only to contain China and Russia but , in the long run , Japan as ...
... military power instead of upon common economic and political interests ? If so , the United States must step up its investment of military resources in the Pacific , not only to contain China and Russia but , in the long run , Japan as ...
Page 289
... military bases accelerated in 1942. The attempt by a military policeman to arrest a drunken black soldier in Alexandria , Louisiana , sparked a race riot that resulted in the shooting of twenty - eight Negroes and the arrest of nearly ...
... military bases accelerated in 1942. The attempt by a military policeman to arrest a drunken black soldier in Alexandria , Louisiana , sparked a race riot that resulted in the shooting of twenty - eight Negroes and the arrest of nearly ...
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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