America Unbound: World War II and the Making of a Superpower

Book Overview

Whether World War II made or merely marked the transition of the United States from a major world power to a superpower, the fact remains that America's role in the world around it had undergone a dramatic change. Other nations had long recognized the potential of the United States. They had seen its power exercised regularly in economics, if only sparodically in politics. But World War II, and the landscape it left behind, prompted American leaders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349606294
• ISBN13: 9781349606290
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"