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Safe Passage : The Transition from British to American Hegemony / Kori Schake.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 1 mapContent type:
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  • 9780674981065
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1/140973 23
LOC classification:
  • D31 .S348 2017eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Opening Salvo -- 2. In Theory and in Practice -- 3. Theft on the High Seas: Monroe’s Doctrine -- 4. Parallel Latitudes: Oregon’s Boundaries -- 5. Domestic Threat: America’s Civil War -- 6. Manifesting Destiny: Defining the Nation -- 7. Mission Creep: The Venezuelan Crises -- 8. Us versus Them: The Spanish-American War -- 9. European Power: World War I -- 10. Imposing Power: The Washington Naval Treaties -- 11. Sharp Relief: World War II -- 12. Lessons from a Peaceful Transition -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. To explain why this transition was nonviolent, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis between Britain and the U.S., from the Monroe Doctrine to the unequal “special relationship” during World War II.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Opening Salvo -- 2. In Theory and in Practice -- 3. Theft on the High Seas: Monroe’s Doctrine -- 4. Parallel Latitudes: Oregon’s Boundaries -- 5. Domestic Threat: America’s Civil War -- 6. Manifesting Destiny: Defining the Nation -- 7. Mission Creep: The Venezuelan Crises -- 8. Us versus Them: The Spanish-American War -- 9. European Power: World War I -- 10. Imposing Power: The Washington Naval Treaties -- 11. Sharp Relief: World War II -- 12. Lessons from a Peaceful Transition -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. To explain why this transition was nonviolent, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis between Britain and the U.S., from the Monroe Doctrine to the unequal “special relationship” during World War II.

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In English.

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