Modernity and Power - A History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1: Roosevelt and Taft: The Emergence of Civilization as Policy Principle 2: Woodrow Wilson and the Historical Necessity of Idealism 3: Herbert Hoover: Culture versus Civilization 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Halfway Wilsonian 5: Wilsonian Problems: George F. Kennan and the Definition of the Cold War 6: Wilsonian Solutions: Toward a New Language of Power 7: Eisenhower's Symbolic Cold War 8: John F. Kennedy and the Impossibility of Realism 9: Lyndon Johnson and the Crisis of World Opinion Conclusion Abbreviations Used Frequently in the Notes Notes Index

Summary

This text provides an overview of 20th-century United States foreign policy, from the Roosevelt and Taft administrations through the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson. The development of the global strategy from early in the century through to the Vietnam war is also examined.

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• Authors: Frank Ninkovich, Frank (St. Johns University) Ninkovich, Frank A. Ninkovich
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1994
• EAN: 9780226586519
• ISBN: 978-0-226-58651-9
• No. of pages: 436
• Dimensions: 232 mm x 153 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 686 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education