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Morefield Jeanne
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Titolo: |
Empires without imperialism : Anglo-American decline and the politics of deflection / / Jeanne Morefield
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.510941 |
Soggetto topico: | Liberalism - Great Britain - History |
Liberalism - United States - History | |
Imperialism | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Colonies History |
United States Insular possessions History | |
United States Territories and possessions History | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Empires Without Imperialism; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One Strategies of Antiquity; 1 Alfred Zimmern's "Oxford Paradox": Displacement and Athenian Nostalgia; 2 Falling in Love with Athens: Donald Kagan on America and Thucydides's Revisionism; Part Two Metanarrative Strategies; 3 The Round Table's Story of Commonwealth; 4 The Empire Whisperer: Niall Ferguson's Misdirection, Disavowal, and the Perilousness of Neoliberal Time; Part Three Strategies of Character; 5 Empire's Handyman: Jan Smuts and the Politics of International Holism |
6 Michael Ignatieff's Tragedy: Just As We Are, Here and NowNotes; INDEX | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The end of the Cold War ushered in a moment of nearly pure American dominance on the world stage, yet that era now seems ages ago. Since 9/11 many informed commentators have focused on the relative decline of American power in the global system. While some have welcomed this as a salutary development, outspoken proponents of American power--particularly neoconservatives--have lamented this turn of events. As Jeanne Morefield argues in Empires Without Imperialism, the defenders of a liberal international order steered by the US have both invoked nostalgia for a golden liberal past and succumbed |
Titolo autorizzato: | Empires without imperialism ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-984411-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809973303321 |
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