TY - BOOK ID - 78645709 TI - The American trajectory PY - 2018 SN - 0999874705 9780999874707 9780998694788 9780998694795 0998694789 9780998694771 PB - Atlanta, GA DB - UniCat KW - Indigenous children KW - Children and genocide KW - Genocide (International law) KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Law and legislation. KW - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide KW - Criminal law KW - International criminal law KW - Genocide and children KW - Genocide KW - Aboriginal children KW - Native children KW - Children KW - Convención para la prevención y la sanción del delito de genocidio KW - Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide KW - Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide KW - Fang chih chi chʻeng chih wei hai chung tsu tsui kung yüeh KW - Konvent︠s︡ii︠a︡ o preduprezhdenii prestuplenii︠a︡ genot︠s︡ida i nakazanii za nego KW - Exceptionalism KW - National characteristics, American KW - Imperialism KW - Christianity and politics KW - Political ethics KW - History. KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Philosophy. KW - History KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - National characteristics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78645709 AB - "Traces the trajectory of the American Empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century. This book demonstrates the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided. The American Trajectory contains many episodes that many readers will find surprising: That the sinking of the Lusitania was anticipated, both by Churchill and Wilson, as a means of inducing America's entry into World War I; that the attack on Pearl Harbor was neither unprovoked nor a surprise; that during the "Good War" the US government plotted and played politics with a view to becoming the dominant empire; that there was no need to drop atomic bombs on Japan either to win the war or to save American lives; that US decisions were central to the inability of the League of Nations and the United Nations to prevent war; that the United States was more responsible than the Soviet Union for the Cold War; that the Vietnam War was far from the only US military adventure during the Cold War that killed great numbers of civilians; that the US government organized false flag attacks that deliberately killed Europeans; and that America's military interventions after the dissolution of the Soviet Union taught some conservatives (such as Andrew Bacevich and Chalmers Johnson) that the US interventions during the Cold War were not primarily defensive. The conclusion deals with the question of how knowledge by citizens of how the American Empire has behaved could make America better and how America, which had long thought of itself as the Redeemer Nation, might redeem itself."--Provided by publisher. ER -