Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age

By Christopher McKnight Nichols

Book Overview

Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674049845
• ISBN13: 9780674049840
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.8"