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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy

Stephen Wertheim, Cambridge MA, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2020, 272 pp., £23.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0674248663

 

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1 Stephen Wertheim, Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2020).

2 See, for example, John A. Thompson, ‘The Geopolitical Vision: The Myth of an Outmatched U.S.A’ in Duncan Bell and Joel Isaac (eds.), Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012); John A. Thompson, A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2015).

3 Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Farrar: Straus and Giroux 2019).

4 Lucian M. Ashworth, ‘Mapping a New World: Geography and the Interwar Study of International Relations’, International Studies Quarterly, 57/1 (2013) 138–49.

5 See Mary L. Dudziak, War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

6 Henry R. Luce, ‘The American Century’, [1941] reproduced in Diplomatic History 23/2 (1999), 159–71.

7 Clarence K. Streit, Union Now: A Proposal for a Federal Union of the Democracies of the North Atlantic (New York, London: Harper & Brothers 1939).

8 M. L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2000), chapter 2.

9 I. Parmar. Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power (New York: Columbia University Press 2012); K. Rietzler, ‘Fortunes of a Profession: American Foundations and International Law, 1910–1939’, Global Society 28/1 (2014), 8–23.

10 N. Gilman, Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory and the Cold War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 2007); D. Bessner and N. Guilhot (eds.) The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the 20th Century (New York: Berghahn Books 2019.)

11 Guilhot, The Democracy Makers, chapter 3.

12 Guilhot, The Democracy Makers, 111.

13 Guilhot, The Democracy Makers, 32.

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Or Rosenboim

Or Rosenboim is a historian of international thought. She is a Senior Lecturer at the department of International Politics and Director of the Centre for Modern History at City, University of London. She has published extensively on American and European international thought in the twentieth century. Her book, The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939–1950, was published by Princeton University Press in 2017.

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