Power and policy : America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / Lawrence Lenz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great powers.

History.

United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Territorial expansion.

Territorial expansion.

United States--Military policy.

Military policy.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--History--20th century.

Great powers--History--19th century.

Great powers--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., [2008]

Contents:

Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies

Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships

and a military-industrial complex

Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889

Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat

Appendix: Analysis of the executive and advisory councils

Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser

Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire

Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War

Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it

Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff?

Panama revolution, 1903 : taking Panama or taking advantage in Panama? and Cuba too

Appendix: Panamanian incidents, 1850-1902

Japan, 1904-1908 : the rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet; US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy?

Appendix A: The Great White Fleet

Appendix B: Capital ships Japanese fleet

Appendix C: Japanese ships in Yokohama

Nicaragua, 1912 : $ diplomacy : US Marines + US business

Mexico 1914 : Moral (oil?) diplomacy, naval blockade and Pancho Villa : Appendix: Naval landing force at Vercruz

World War, 1917-1918 : fighting the Germans and the allies : President Wilson's surge that worked

Naval disarmament, 1921 : Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 1921, the greatest naval battle of all time

Appendix A: Battleships sunk by the 1922 Washington Treaty

Appendix B: Major naval powers after the Washington treaty

Conclusion

Appendix: Explanation of naval comparison tables.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index.

ISBN:

9780875866635

0875866638

9780875866642

0875866646

9780875866659

0875866654

OCLC:

249136722