1st Edition

America Rising Power and Political Economy in the First Nation

By David Felix Copyright 2009
266 Pages
by Routledge

265 Pages
by Routledge

The United States became a great power in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and a superpower during World War II without quite knowing it. Few Americans fully appreciate the fact today. How many people know that in recent years we have had 250,000 troops in 700 bases around the world? Consider our recent history of military operations in the Caribbean, East Asia, the Far East, Middle... Read more

Dedication
Introduction
1. Critical Mass
2. Economics Lesson for Economists
and Others
3. The Political Economy of World Power
4. America at Home
5. America Abroad
6. New Deal at Home and Abroad
7. USSR: Another Political Economy
8. Hitler's Germany as Facilitator
9. Reluctant Empire
10. Disorder and Early Sorrow: The Sixties
11. Third Way
12. China Rising
Bibliography
Index

Biography

David Felix