Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors

With learning, dispassion and clarity, this book offers comparisons and an original account of American power. It explores the exercise of US power in the 19th and 20th centuries, analysing its economic and strategic sources and the nation's relationship to predecessors and rivals.

• Author
• Charles S. Maier

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 373

• Publisher
• Harvard University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780674021891

• Genres
• history, politics

• Release date
• 2006