Title:
The ghost at the feast : America and the collapse of world order, 1900-1941 / Robert Kagan.
ISBN:
9780307262943
9781400095681
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
©2023
Physical Description:
x, 669 pages : maps ; 25 cm
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf." -- title page verso.
Contents:
A Tale of Two Wars -- Empire Without "Imperialism"; Imperialism without "Empire" -- Collapse of the 19th-Century World Order -- European War and American Neutrality -- "Schrechlichkeit" and The Submarine War -- "He kept us out of war" -- Path to War -- America Declares War -- America and the "war to end all wars" -- Great War Ends -- America and the European Peace -- Wilson and the League Fight -- A Return to "Normalcy"? -- Collapse of Europe and the Rise of Hitler -- Toward a New Order in Asia -- Manchurian Crisis -- Fascist Challenge -- Franklin D. Roosevelt : Isolationist -- United States and Appeasement -- "Kristallnacht" and American Anti-Semitism -- Blitzkrieg and America's "Great Debate" -- Accelerating Toward War -- United States Enters the War.
Summary:
"A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--a follow up to the author's acclaimed first volume, from our nation's earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
on1291310963
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