American umpire /
Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually ea...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2013
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. To Compel Acquiescence
- 2. Umpire Attacked
- 3. Another Umpire than Arms
- 4. A Rowboat in the Wake of a Battleship
- 5. Territorial Expansion versus Saltwater Imperialism
- 6. The Open Door and the First International Rules
- 7. War against War
- 8. Up to the Neck and in to the Death
- 9. The Buck Stops Here
- 10. A Coercive Logic
- Conclusion: Good Calls, Bad Calls, and Rules in Flux
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
