Pax Americana
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the height of the Cold War, a fundamental question haunted American foreign policy: how did a nation born in anti-colonial revolution become the architect of a global empire? Pax Americana confronts this paradox head-on, chronicling the dramatic transformation of the United States from an isolationist republic into a superpower with military commitments spanning every continent. Ronald Steel presents a sharp and unflinching audit of American interventionism, tracing the ideological ambitions, political miscalculations, and strategic overreach that came to define Washington's postwar dominance — an empire, he argues, acquired not by grand design, but by accident. Steel writes with the precision of a seasoned foreign correspondent and the analytical rigour of a historian, dissecting the myths of American exceptionalism with cool, authoritative prose. With an introduction by Sir Denis Brogan, Pax Americana situates the United States within a long tradition of imperial powers, drawing uncomfortable comparisons that remain searingly relevant. A landmark work of political journalism, it raises a question that still demands an answer: can a democracy sustain an empire without ultimately becoming one?
Author: Ronald Steel
Format: Hardback
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the height of the Cold War, a fundamental question haunted American foreign policy: how did a nation born in anti-colonial revolution become the architect of a global empire? Pax Americana confronts this paradox head-on, chronicling the dramatic transformation of the United States from an isolationist republic into a superpower with military commitments spanning every continent. Ronald Steel presents a sharp and unflinching audit of American interventionism, tracing the ideological ambitions, political miscalculations, and strategic overreach that came to define Washington's postwar dominance — an empire, he argues, acquired not by grand design, but by accident. Steel writes with the precision of a seasoned foreign correspondent and the analytical rigour of a historian, dissecting the myths of American exceptionalism with cool, authoritative prose. With an introduction by Sir Denis Brogan, Pax Americana situates the United States within a long tradition of imperial powers, drawing uncomfortable comparisons that remain searingly relevant. A landmark work of political journalism, it raises a question that still demands an answer: can a democracy sustain an empire without ultimately becoming one?