E-book
Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922
Record details
- ISBN: 9780875866659 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0875866654 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780875866635 (soft cover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780875866642 (hard cover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (x, 269 p., 12 p. of plates) : ill. - Publisher: New York : Algora Pub., c2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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