Tomorrow, the world : the birth of U.S. global supremacy / Stephen Wertheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wertheim, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internationalism.

Diplomatic relations.

Military relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States--Military relations.

Physical Description:

262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world's armed superpower-and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation's new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Internationalism before "Isolationism," 1776-1940

2. World War for World Order, May-December 1940

3. The Americo-British New Order of 1941

4. Instrumental Internationalism, 1941-1943

5. The Debate That Wasn't, 1942-1945.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780674248663

067424866X

OCLC:

1141439296

Publisher Number:

99985255915