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Ambassadors in Pinstripes

The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

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Ambassadors in Pinstripes

The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the international arena. Through his chronicle of baseball history, games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial dreams through globalization's instruments of free enterprise, webs of modern communication and transport, cultural ordering of races and societies, and a strident nationalism that galvanized notions of American uniqueness. Spalding linked baseball to a U.S. presence overseas, viewing the world as a market ripe for the infusion of American ideas, products and energy. Through globalization during the Gilded Age, he and other Americans penetrated the globe and laid the foundation for an empire formally acquired just a decade after their tour.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742551695

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Unconditional Defeat

Japan, America, and the End of World War II

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

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Unconditional Defeat

Japan, America, and the End of World War II

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

Unconditional Defeat-the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding stages of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, from November 1943 until September 1945. Thomas W. Zeiler argues that this "war without mercy" could only come to one conclusion: the complete, unconditional defeat of Japan by a mobilized, overwhelming, vengeful United States. Zeiler describes these final 22 months of the Pacific War as a story of contrasts. While the U.S. launched a methodical, smothering attack with all the means at its disposal, Japan fought a fierce yet hopeless defense with diminishing supplies. By November 1943, Japan lacked the necessities not just for victory, as in the earlier phases of the war, but for adequate defense. The Japanese had no options. The strategic planning rested with the Americans. Zeiler's gripping and thorough overview discusses other contrasts between the two foes. The Americans planned multiple advances in the Pacific Ocean and on the Asian mainland. They used a massive number of troops, devised and adopted new amphibious techniques, and deployed the new nuclear category of weapons. The Japanese stubbornly but desperately clung to their territory, often with the basest of defenses. By August 1945, the United States' forces at sea, on land, and in the air had brought Japan near complete defeat. In addition, the Japanese Empire was diplomatically isolated. Japanese politics was in turmoil, the government faced rebellion, and the Emperor stood on the brink of extinction. Wracked by the destruction of the homeland from the air and blockade by sea, Japanese society veered near chaos and the people peered into the abyss of an uncertain future. In the meantime, America's military had experienced such horrors at the hands of Japan that the U.S. made the difficult decision to unleash the atomic bomb. Despite the stark differences between the U.S. and Japan, argues Zeiler, there was one aspect of the war that both sides held i

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0842029915

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9780842029919

Dean Rusk

Defending the American Mission Abroad

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

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Dean Rusk

Defending the American Mission Abroad

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the career of Rusk, the author reflects on the uses and abuses of predominant power in diplomacy, and interprets events and issues.

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084202686X

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9780842026864

Globalization and the American Century

By: Alfred E. Eckes,Thomas W. Zeiler

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Globalization and the American Century

By: Alfred E. Eckes,Thomas W. Zeiler

Revolutionary improvements in technology combined with the leadership elite's enthusiasm for de-regulation of markets and free trade to fuel American-style globalization. The nation rose to economic power after the Spanish-American War, and won both world wars and the Cold war, after which America's power and cultural influence soared as business and financial interests pursued the long-term quest for global markets. But, the tragic events of September 2001 and the growing volatility of global finance, raised questions about whether the era of American-led globalization was sustainable, or vulnerable to catastrophic collapse.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521009065

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9780521009065

American Trade and Power in the 1960's

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

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American Trade and Power in the 1960's

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

American Trade and Power in the 1960s is a timely examination of the success and failure of United States trade policy under presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Assessing a critical decade in postwar economic relations, Thomas W. Zeiler shows trade policy to be the decisive factor hastening America's economic decline vis-a-vis Western Europe and Japan. By the early 1960s, the international commercial might of the U.S. had begun to diminish as a result of the increased strength of the six-member European Economic Community and a persistent balance-of-payments deficit. Believing that America must either "trade or fade," Kennedy proposed a visionary foreign trade bill as a way to reinvigorate the U.S. economy and maintain the Western alliance against the Soviet. With an astute reading of previously unused documents, Zeiler provides a fascinating description of how Kennedy skillfully juggled powerful protectionist interests with his own more liberal trade sentiments to win passage of the bill. Illustrating the harsh realities faced by the U.S. in a world where its economic dominance was no longer assured, Zeiler also presents a masterful compendium of the GATT talks known as the Kennedy Round. In a narrative noteworthy for its clarity, theoretical sophistication, and scrupulous attention to detail, Zeiler shows how U.S. trade policy was thwarted by rising EEC integration and Gaullist obstructionism. The GATT talks conclusively demonstrated that "American hegemony had ended." American Trade and Power in the 1960s brilliantly illuminates the roots of America's economic decline.

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Columbia University Press

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0231079303

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9780231079303

Free Trade, Free World

The Advent of GATT

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

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Free Trade, Free World

The Advent of GATT

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

In this era of globalization, it is easy to forget that today's free market values were not always predominant. But as this history of the birth of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) shows, the principles and practices underlying our current international economy once represented contested ground between U.S. policymakers, Congress, and America's closest allies. Here, Thomas Zeiler shows how the diplomatic and political considerations of the Cold War shaped American trade policy during the critical years from 1940 to 1953. Zeiler traces the debate between proponents of free trade and advocates of protectionism, showing how and why a compromise ultimately triumphed. Placing a liberal trade policy in the service of diplomacy as a means of confronting communism, American officials forged a consensus among politicians of all stripes for freer_if not free_trade that persists to this day. Constructed from inherently contradictory impulses, the system of international trade that evolved under GATT was flexible enough to promote American economic and political interests both at home and abroad, says Zeiler, and it is just such flexibility that has allowed GATT to endure.

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UNC Press Books

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0807824585

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9780807824580

National Pastime

U.S. History Through Baseball

By: Martin C. Babicz,Thomas W. Zeiler

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National Pastime

U.S. History Through Baseball

By: Martin C. Babicz,Thomas W. Zeiler

From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed worldwide by millions each season, the linkages between baseball’s evolution and our nation’s history are undeniable. Through war, depression, times of tumultuous upheaval and of great prosperity – baseball has been held up as our national pastime: the single greatest expression of America’s values and ideals. Combining a comprehensive history of the game with broader analyses of America’s historical and cultural developments, National Pastime encapsulates the values that have allowed it to endure: hope, tradition, escape, revolution. While nostalgia, scandal, malaise and triumph are contained within the study of any American historical moment, we see in this book that the tensions and developments within the game of baseball afford the best window into a deeper understanding of America’s past, its purpose, and its principles.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442235853

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9781442235854

Ambassadors in Pinstripes

The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

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The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire

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0742569837

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Unconditional Defeat

Japan, America, and the End of World War II

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Japan, America, and the End of World War II

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Dean Rusk

Defending the American Mission Abroad

By: Thomas W. Zeiler

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Defending the American Mission Abroad

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American Trade and Power in the 1960's

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Book's by Thomas W. Zeiler

Ambassadors in Pinstripes

Ambassadors in Pinstripes

Unconditional Defeat

Unconditional Defeat

Dean Rusk

Dean Rusk

Globalization and the American Century

Globalization and the American Century

American Trade and Power in the 1960's

American Trade and Power in the 1960's

Free Trade, Free World

Free Trade, Free World

National Pastime

National Pastime

Ambassadors in Pinstripes

Ambassadors in Pinstripes

Unconditional Defeat

Unconditional Defeat

Dean Rusk

Dean Rusk

American Trade and Power in the 1960's

American Trade and Power in the 1960's

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