03202nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10476762 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080910s2008 nyua sb 001 0 eng d 2008039948 9780875866635 (soft cover : alk. paper) 9780875866642 (hard cover : alk. paper) 9780875866659 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)368334375 n-us--- E661.7 .L46 2008eb 327.73009/034 22 Lenz, Lawrence, 1946- Power and policy [electronic resource] : America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / Lawrence Lenz. New York : Algora Pub., 2008. x, 269 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? -- Panama revolution, 1903 : taking Panama or taking advantage in Panama? and Cuba too -- Appendix: Panamanian incidents, 1850-1902 -- Japan, 1904-1908 : the rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet; US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy? -- Appendix A: The Great White Fleet -- Appendix B: Capital ships Japanese fleet -- Nicaragua, 1912 : $ diplomacy : US Marines + US business -- World War, 1917-1918 : fighting the Germans and the allies : President Wilson's surge that worked -- Naval disarmament, 1921 : Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 1921, the greatest naval battle of all time -- Appendix A: Battleships sunk by the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty -- British battleships sunk by the Washington Treaty; Japanese battleships sunk by the Washington Treaty; Great Britain : battleships after the Washington Treaty -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Explanation of naval comparison tables. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Imperialism History 19th century. Imperialism History 20th century. Great powers History 19th century. Great powers History 20th century. United States Foreign relations 1865-1921. United States Territorial expansion. United States Military policy. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10476762 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 116582 116582