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HOYT : America's wars and military excursions (fülszöveg)

 

America's Wars and Military Excursions is about war but not primarily about battles. Expert military historian Edwin P. Hoyt here traces the continuity of American military policy over more than three centuries of American history—from colonial campaigns to twentieth-century foreign engagements. Included in America's Wars are the Revolutionary War, the Seminole War and other Indian wars, the major military conflicts as well as the nineteeth-century assault on Japan, and interventions in Vietnam and Latin America.

Mr. Hoyt demonstrates that American military policy in the Western Hemisphere has been and still is the result of a kind of American political evangelism, a distorted offshoot of the American Revolution. Hoyt's treatment of U.S. Manifest Destiny over 300 years, and especially his theories on World War II, is especially noteworthy in its revisionist approach. He documents the wars and military actions themselves, as well as the reasons for America's involvement, and discusses protectionism, business ties, banana republic policies and gunboat diplomacy. In his search for common denominators underlying America's military adventures, Hoyt finds in some of our past wars the roots of many current problems.

Sometimes controversial, always thoroughly reasoned and clearly presented, America's Wars is a major reference work in the field of military, U.S. and world history.

 

Katalógus Hoyt Tartalom
KATALÓGUS TARTALOM

 


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