00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002917 20221114031413 0010-0520002917 221114################|##########|#eng## 978-0-415-77214-3 eng 973 973 AME America, War and Power : Defining the State, 1775 - 2005 America, War and Power : Defining the State, 1775 - 2005 / Edited by Lawrence Sondhaus and A. James Fuller London : Routledge, 2007 xiii, 226 p. : illus, ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.218 - 226 This book address the role of armed force, and attitudes toward it, in shaping and defining the United States. The first six chapters, arranged in chronologic order, reflect on this central question, focusing on the America Revolution and Early Republic; America Civil War and its impact on US attitudes toward foreign entanglements, down to World War II; the convergence of military and domestic issues during Dwight D. Eisenhower's career as general and US presidents; the American experience of the Cold War; and the Vietnam War as a "television war" with consideration of its impact on the Iraq War. The collection will be of much interast of to students of US military, history, politics, and stralegy in general. Power (Social sciences)-United States-History War and society-United States-History Edited by Lawrence Sondhaus and A. James Fuller 10590/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10591/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10591/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10590/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10590/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10591/MKRI-P/XI-2008