"America's Middlemen Throughout American political history, the U.S. government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and rebels. Sometimes, these alliances have been successful, dramatically reshaping the battlefield. But these alliances have also risked creating larger wars in regi...

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Main Author:	Grynaviski, Eric 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2018
Subjects:	Geschichte Bündnispolitik Bündnis Verbündeter USA Alliances / History Alliances United States / History / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 United States / History, Military / 19th century / United States
Summary:	"America's Middlemen Throughout American political history, the U.S. government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and rebels. Sometimes, these alliances have been successful, dramatically reshaping the battlefield. But these alliances have also risked creating larger wars in regions where the United States had no real interest. Understanding these alliances - and much of American political history - requires moving beyond our normal focus on traditional diplomats or social elites. Traders, missionaries, former slaves, and low-level government employees drove these alliances. These intermediaries used their relationships across borders to shape security politics, affecting American and thereby world history. Skillfully integrating political science with history and sociology, Eric Grynaviski provides a novel account of who matters and why in international politics."--Provided by publisher
Item Description:	Enthält Literaturangaben und Index
Physical Description:	xii, 309 Seiten 7 Illustrationen und Karten
ISBN:	9781316614723 9781107162150