Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
AMERICANS CONSIDER themselves a peaceful people. Yet every generation since colonial times has taken part in war. Why? Does something in our democratic creed lead us repeatedly into hostilities? Does the American sense of mission demand that we take up arms to transform the world into our own image? Do baser motives drive national policy? Is there, in short, a distinctive American motive and style of war?Distinguished diplomatic historian Robert A. Divine considers these questions in a thoughtful retrospective of the wars of the twentieth century. He examines the process of going to war and seeks patterns showing how and why the nation become…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-89096-953-3
- EAN: 9780890969533
- Produktnummer: 1704635
- Verlag: Texas A & M University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B12.7 cm 313 g
- Abbildungen: bibliography, index
- Gewicht: 313
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Robert A. Divine is the George W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught for more than forty years. A specialist in American diplomatic history, his books include Blowing on the Wind, Eisenhower and the Cold War, and The Sputnik Challenge.
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