Introduction: The Long American Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Long American Century 1
5. 1. Motives of Expansion 7
6. 2. Imperial America: War with Spain and the Philippines 32
7. 3. Varieties of Empire 56
8. 4. The Rise and Fall of Wilsonianism 79
9. 5. Isolation and Intervention 107
10. 6. World War II 131
11. 7. The Beginning of the Cold War 157
12. 8. The Korean War and the Cold War of the 1950s 182
13. 9. The Nationalist Challenge 206
14. 10. Years of Crisis 231
15. 11. The Vietnam War 255
16. 12. The Era of Détente 281
17. 13. Escalating and Ending the Cold War 305
18. 14. Globalization after the Cold War 331
19. 15. The Age of Terror 354
20. Sources 379
21. Index 395