03766nam 2200697 a 450 991045400880332120200520144314.00-87586-665-4(CKB)1000000000755333(OCoLC)368334375(CaPaEBR)ebrary10476762(SSID)ssj0000647229(PQKBManifestationID)12245300(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647229(PQKBWorkID)10610799(PQKB)10229984(SSID)ssj0000225219(PQKBManifestationID)12078312(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225219(PQKBWorkID)10229556(PQKB)10812691(MiAaPQ)EBC3001702(Au-PeEL)EBL3001702(CaPaEBR)ebr10476762(OCoLC)929146429(EXLCZ)99100000000075533320080910d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPower and policy[electronic resource] America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 /Lawrence LenzNew York Algora Pub.20081 online resource (289 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-87586-663-8 0-87586-664-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? -- Panama revolution, 1903 : taking Panama or taking advantage in Panama? and Cuba too -- Appendix: Panamanian incidents, 1850-1902 -- Japan, 1904-1908 : the rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet; US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy? -- Appendix A: The Great White Fleet -- Appendix B: Capital ships Japanese fleet -- Nicaragua, 1912 : $ diplomacy : US Marines + US business -- World War, 1917-1918 : fighting the Germans and the allies : President Wilson's surge that worked -- Naval disarmament, 1921 : Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 1921, the greatest naval battle of all time -- Appendix A: Battleships sunk by the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty -- British battleships sunk by the Washington Treaty; Japanese battleships sunk by the Washington Treaty; Great Britain : battleships after the Washington Treaty -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Explanation of naval comparison tables.ImperialismHistory19th centuryImperialismHistory20th centuryGreat powersHistory19th centuryGreat powersHistory20th centuryUnited StatesForeign relations1865-1921United StatesTerritorial expansionUnited StatesMilitary policyElectronic books.ImperialismHistoryImperialismHistoryGreat powersHistoryGreat powersHistory327.73009/034Lenz Lawrence1946-943986MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454008803321Power and policy2130844UNINA