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viii, 501 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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"Sean A. Mirski tells the story of how the United States became a regional hegemon in the century following the Civil War. By turns reluctant and ruthless, the U.S. squeezed their European rivals out of the hemisphere while landing forces on their neighbors' soil with dizzying frequency. Mirski reveals the reasons behind this muscular foreign policy in a narrative full of twists, colorful characters, and original accounts of the palace coups and bloody...
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"With logic that is his trademark, Chomsky tracks the US government's aggressive pursuit of "full spectrum dominance" and vividly lays out how the most recent manifestations of the politics of global control - from unilateralism to the dismantling of international agreements to state terrorism - cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our existence. Lucidly written, thoroughly documented, and featuring a new afterword about the war...
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Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it's a responsibility. For the past several years Chomsky has been writing essays for The New York Times Syndicate to do just that: challenge power and expose the global consequences of U.S. policy and military actions worldwide. Interventions is a collection of these essays, revised and updated with notes by the author. While Chomsky's New York Times Syndicate writings...
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