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Roots of the Pax Americana : decolonization, development, democratization and trade / P. Eric Louw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Louw, P. Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- Decolonization.
- Democratization.
- International trade.
- Great Britain--Colonies.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Physical Description:
- 282 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Contents:
- 1 What is the Pax Americana?
- 2 The twentieth-century power-shift
- 3 Manifest destiny and the rise of American power
- 4 The British Empire as obstacle to American power
- 5 Planning for a future Pax Americana
- 6 Promoting decolonisation: de-legitimating European imperial power
- 7 Getting Britain to deconstruct its empire
- 8 Cloning America 1: selling " development'
- 9 Cloning America 2: the German/Japan model
- 10 Cloning America 3: Hollywood and Soft Power
- 11 The Empire strikes back: 9/11 and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719079573
- 0719079578
- OCLC:
- 449857789
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