To make and keep peace among ourselves and with all nations / / Angelo M. Codevilla
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Codevilla Angelo <1943-2021, >
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| Titolo: |
To make and keep peace among ourselves and with all nations / / Angelo M. Codevilla
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, California ; ; Hoover Institution Press : , : Stanford University, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.66 |
| Soggetto topico: | Peace |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Foreword by Victor Davis Hanson; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Nature of Peace; 2 Peace, Civilization, and War; 3 Defensor Pacis; 4 Patriot Kings; 5 A Right to Peace; 6 America, Not Rome; 7 Washington's Peace; 8 Impotence, Honor, and War; 9 American Geopolitics; 10 What Greatness?; 11 Lincoln's Peace; 12 Peacefully Pregnant; 13 Empire?; 14 Nation, or World?; 15 Pacifism vs. Peace; 16 War for Everything, and Nothing; 17 Cold War; 18 No-Win War, No Peace; 19 Peacekeeping vs. Peace |
| 20 The War on Peace21 No Peace at Home; 22 What Can Be America's Peace?; Notes; References; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmen's inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics have ceased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts. The author reestablishes early American statecraft's understanding of peace-what it takes to make it and what it takes to keep it. He reminds Americans why our foun |
| Titolo autorizzato: | To make and keep peace among ourselves and with all nations |
| ISBN: | 0-8179-1718-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821126803321 |
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