The Ghost at the Feast

The Ghost at the Feast
Author: Robert Kagan
Publsiher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780307262943

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A comprehensive, sweeping history of America’s rise to global superpower—a follow-up to the author’s acclaimed first volume, from our nation’s earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century. At the turn of the twentieth century, America was at a tipping point: its population and wealth were growing rapidly, and the country had entered the world stage as a commanding political, economic, and military force. Would America retreat within their own relatively secure and geographically separate borders, or would it continue to expand its influence on an international scale? Beginning with the “honorable” Spanish-American War and ending with the wreckage of World War II, Robert Kagan tracks how America’s desire to be an arbiter of peace as a young democracy has conflicted with its desire to stay neutral. Kagan shows how this moral high ground has led to mistakes and acts of ruthless ambition, but he also argues that America’s hesitation to intervene in foreign affairs has allowed fascism and tyranny to grow unchecked. Brilliant and insightful, The Ghost at the Feast strips away any illusion that America can be an isolationist country, tracing the stunningly quick dissolution of European control and the emergence of a new world order with America at its helm.

The Ghost at the Feast

The Ghost at the Feast
Author: Robert Kagan
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2024-01-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781400095681

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A comprehensive, sweeping history of America’s rise to global superpower—from the Spanish-American War to World War II—by the acclaimed author of Dangerous Nation “With extraordinary range and research, Robert Kagan has illuminated America’s quest to reconcile its new power with its historical purpose in world order in the early twentieth century.” —Dr. Henry Kissinger At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was one of the world’s richest, most populous, most technologically advanced nations. It was also a nation divided along numerous fault lines, with conflicting aspirations and concerns pulling it in different directions. And it was a nation unsure about the role it wanted to play in the world, if any. Americans were the beneficiaries of a global order they had no responsibility for maintaining. Many preferred to avoid being drawn into what seemed an ever more competitive, conflictual, and militarized international environment. However, many also were eager to see the United States taking a share of international responsibility, working with others to preserve peace and advance civilization. The story of American foreign policy in the first four decades of the twentieth century is about the effort to do both—“to adjust the nation to its new position without sacrificing the principles developed in the past,” as one contemporary put it. This would prove a difficult task. The collapse of British naval power, combined with the rise of Germany and Japan, suddenly placed the United States in a pivotal position. American military power helped defeat Germany in the First World War, and the peace that followed was significantly shaped by a U.S. president. But Americans recoiled from their deep involvement in world affairs, and for the next two decades, they sat by as fascism and tyranny spread unchecked, ultimately causing the liberal world order to fall apart. America’s resulting intervention in the Second World War marked the beginning of a new era, for the United States and for the world. Brilliant and insightful, The Ghost at the Feast shows both the perils of American withdrawal from the world and the price of international responsibility.

Being Dakota

Being Dakota
Author: Amos Enos Oneroad,Alanson Skinner
Publsiher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873515307

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A unique collection detailing the customs, traditions, and folklore of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota at the turn of the twentieth century, with descriptions of tribal organization, ceremonies that marked the individual's passage from birth to death, and material culture

The French Revolution

The French Revolution
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1851
Genre: France
ISBN: WISC:89041281676

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The French Revolution A History in Three Parts I The Bastille II The Constitution III The Guillotine

The French Revolution  A History  in Three Parts  I  The Bastille  II  The Constitution  III  The Guillotine
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1857
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: NLS:V000555501

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The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle

The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1851
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: IBNR:CR102006720

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The French Revolution

The French Revolution
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publsiher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780307432223

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The book that established Thomas Carlyle’s reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid realization of the picturesque, and a singular ability to bring the past to blazing life, making it a reading experience as thrilling as any novel. As John D. Rosenberg observes in his Introduction, The French Revolution is “one of the grand poems of [Carlyle’s] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact.” This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else.

Dangerous Nation

Dangerous Nation
Author: Robert Kagan
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2007-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780375724916

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Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their global power and influence from the beginning. Driven by commercial, territorial, and idealistic ambitions, the United States has always perceived itself, and been seen by other nations, as an international force. This is a book of great importance to our understanding of our nation’s history and its role in the global community.