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The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
Noel Maurer
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Description for The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
Hardback. Num Pages: 568 pages, 34 line illus. 18 tables. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; JPS; KCL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 154 x 40. Weight in Grams: 920.
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the United States from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Noel Maurer examines the ways that American investors initially influenced their government ... Read more
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the United States from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Noel Maurer examines the ways that American investors initially influenced their government ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
568
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
919g
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691155821
SKU
V9780691155821
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About Noel Maurer
Noel Maurer is associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. He is the author of The Power and the Money and coauthor of The Politics of Property Rights, Mexico since 1980, and The Big Ditch (Princeton).
Reviews for The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
"[T]his is a very good book
cogently argued, detailed, and well-written."
Politics Reader "The Empire Trap represents an important addition to scholarship on twentieth century U.S. foreign policy. Maurer convincingly demonstrates that American investments in foreign countries were repeatedly threatened by expropriating governments and that in countless instances the United States utilized a variety of methods to protect those investments or to ... Read more
cogently argued, detailed, and well-written."
Politics Reader "The Empire Trap represents an important addition to scholarship on twentieth century U.S. foreign policy. Maurer convincingly demonstrates that American investments in foreign countries were repeatedly threatened by expropriating governments and that in countless instances the United States utilized a variety of methods to protect those investments or to ... Read more