LEADER 03433cam a2200517 i 4500001 99107728173506421 005 20240718132030.0 008 180131t20182018enka b 001 0 eng c 020 9780815376156 |q(hbk.) 020 0815376154 |q(hbk.) 020 9780815376163 |q(pbk.) 020 0815376162 |q(pbk.) 035 (NjP)10772817-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager10772817 035 (OCoLC)on1030747996 040 BOS |beng |cBOS |erda |dOBE 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 4 D843 |b.M326 2018 082 04 973.918 |223 100 1 Mayers, David, |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82128577 245 10 America and the postwar world : |bremaking International Society, 1945-1956 / |cDavid Mayers. 264 1 London ;New York : |bRoutledge, |c2018. 264 4 |c©2018 300 xxix, 281 pages : |billustrations ; |c25 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Routledge studies in modern history ; |v36 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-271) and index. 520 2 The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with concomitant attention upon the bristling security state. Historians have also extensively analyzed the creation of an economic order (Bretton Woods), mainly designed by Americans and tailored to their interests, but resisted by peoples residing outside of North America, Western Europe, and Japan. This scholarship, centered on the Cold War as vortex and a reconfigured world economy, is rife with contending schools of interpretation and, bolstered by troves of declassified archival documents, will support investigations and writing into the future. By contrast, this book examines a past that ran concurrent with the Cold War and interacted with it, but which usefully can also be read as separable: Washington in the first years after World War II, and in response to that conflagration, sought to redesign international society. That society was then, and remains, an admittedly amorphous thing. Yet it has always had a tangible aspect, drawing self-regarding states into occasional cooperation, mediated by treaties, laws, norms, diplomatic customs, and transnational institutions. 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 650 0 International relations |xHistory |y20th century. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008124021 650 0 World War, 1939-1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148273 650 0 World politics. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148216 650 7 International relations. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00977053 650 7 World politics. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01181381 651 0 United States |xHistory |y1945-1953. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140300 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 Routledge studies in modern history ; |v36. 852 0 |bf |hD843 |i.M326 2018 902 yj |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20180614 904 yj |ba |hm |cb |e20180614 914 (OCoLC)on1030747996 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240710 |eprocessed |f1030747996