• Meeting the enemy : American exceptionalism and international law
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: American exceptionalism and international law
    [NT 47261] Author: SaitoNatsu Taylor,
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
    [NT 47263] Published: New York University Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2010
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (ix, 374 p.).
    [NT 47298] Series: Critical America
    [NT 47266] Subject: International law -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Manifest Destiny -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Exceptionalism - History - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: United States - Territorial expansion -
    [NT 47266] Subject: United States - Foreign relations -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814741252/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    [NT 51398] Summary: Saito has produced a synthesis that is thought-provoking and challenging, and it provides a welcome attempt to place the contemporary moment in the "war on terror" into a much longer historicalframe. Most of all, like all good critical scholarship, scholars and students can look to this bookas a way to interrogate one's commitments about the American Project
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780814741252electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0814741258electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780814798362hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0814798365hbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: "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 -- makingthe world safe for democracy -- The new world order and American hegemony -- Confronting American exceptionalism
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