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    The cross of war : Christian nationalism and U.S. expansion in the Spanish-American War / by McCullough, Matthew

    Published 2014
    Subjects: “…Spanish-American War, 1898 Religious aspects Christianity.…”
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    Window on freedom race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 /

    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…Seen from the outside : the international perspective on America's dilemma / Paul Gordon Lauren -- Race from power : U.S. foreign policy and the general crisis of white supremacy / Gerald Horne -- Brown babies : race, gender, and policy after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- Bleached souls and Red Negroes : the NAACP and Black Communists in the early Cold War, 1948-1952 / Cary Fraser -- An American dilemma : race and realpolitik in the American response to the Bandung Conference, 1955 / Cary Fraser -- Segregationists and the world : the foreign policy of the white resistance / Thomas Noer -- The unwelcome mat : African diplomats in Washington, D.C., during the Kennedy years / Michael Krenn -- Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America : international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration / Mary L. …”
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    Meeting the enemy American exceptionalism and international law / by Saito, Natsu Taylor

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…"A distinctly American internationalism" -- Saving civilization : the war on terror -- Civilizing the other : colonial origins of international law -- "A city on a hill" : America as exception -- Establishing the republic : first principles and American identity -- A manifest destiny : colonizing the continent -- American imperial expansion -- Making the world safe for democracy -- The new world order and American hegemony -- Confronting American exceptionalism.…”
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    Hegemony in the digital age the Arab/Israeli conflict online / by Marmura, Stephen M. E., 1965-

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction : identity and authority in the age of networks -- Aims and scope -- Key terms and concepts -- Political mobilization -- The Web as a mass medium -- War on the Web -- Ideology and civil society -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Grassroots mobilization and political opportunity -- Activism and the Net : relevant precedents -- Contemporary peace camp activism -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Public opinion -- Backdrop : the mainstream media as a legitimating identity -- The Web as an alternative mass medium -- The voice of legitimacy : CNN.com and the Arab/Israeli conflict -- Introduction -- CNN.com's "land of conflict" -- Dominant themes and validity claims -- Anchoring authority in a de-centered medium -- Closing remarks -- Hate and holy war on the WWW -- Confronting the other -- Stormfront.org : promoting the cause of "White nationalism" -- Kahane.org : fighting to eliminate Israel's "Arab cancer" -- Radioislam.org : defending Islam and the West from the "Jewish threat" -- Closing remarks -- Hate and holy war on the WWW -- The struggle for influence -- Social movement integration and growth -- Building alliances : virtual and real -- Discussion -- Hegemony reconsidered : the Internet, civil society, and social fragmentation.…”
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    From colony to superpower U.S. foreign relations since 1776 / by Herring, George C., 1936-

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…"To begin the world over again" : foreign policy and the birth of the republic, 1776-1778 -- "None who can make us afraid" : the new republic in a hostile world, 1789-1801 -- "Purified as by fire" : republicanism challenged and reaffirmed, 1801-1815 -- "Leave the rest to us" : the assertive republic, 1815-1837 -- "A dose of arsenic" : slavery, expansionism, and the road to disunion, 1837-1861 -- "Last best hope" : the Union, the Confederacy, and Civil War diplomacy, 1861-1877 -- "A good enough England" : foreign relations in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893 -- The War of 1898 and the dawn of the American century, 1893-1901 -- "Bursting with good intentions" : the United States in world affairs, 1901-1913 -- "A new age" : Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. foreign policy, 1913-1921 -- Involvement without commitment, 1921-1931 -- The great transformation : depression, isolationism, and war, 1931-1941 -- "Five continents and seven seas" : World War II and the emergence of American globalism, 1941-1945 -- "A noble burden far from our shores" : Truman, the Cold War, and the revolution in American foreign policy, 1945-1953 -- Coexistence and crises, 1953-1961 -- Gulliver's troubles: Kennedy, Johnson, and the limits of power, 1961-1969 -- Nixon, Kissinger, and the end of the postwar era, 1969-1974 -- Foreign policy in an age of dissonance, 1974-1981 -- "A unique and extraordinary time in world history" : Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the end of the Cold War, 1981-1991 -- The strength of a giant : America as hyper-power, 1992-2007.…”
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