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Agnew John A
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Titolo: |
Hegemony [[electronic resource] ] : the new shape of global power / / John Agnew
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Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina: | 337.73 |
Soggetto topico: | Consumption (Economics) |
Globalization | |
Civilization, Modern - American influences | |
World politics - 21st century | |
Geopolitics | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign economic relations |
United States Economic policy | |
United States Foreign relations | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-266) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Hegemony versus Empire; 3 American Hegemony and the New Geography of Power; 4 Placing American Hegemony; 5 U.S. Constitutionalism or Marketplace Society?; 6 Globalizing American Hegemony; 7 The New Global Economy; 8 Globalization Comes Home; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Hegemony tells the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure and the promise of goods for mass consumption. In contrast to the recent literature on America as empire, it explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which increasingly reflects the American way of doing business, not the formation or management of an empire. Contextualizing both the Iraq war and recent plant closings in the U.S., noted author John Agnew shows how American hegemony has created a world in which power is no |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hegemony ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-09361-0 |
9786611093617 | |
1-59213-767-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784254803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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