Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Analytic Framework: The World-System, Hegemony and Domestic Power
2. Seeking Supremacy: The Historical Origins of American Hegemony, 1895-1945
3. Cold War on Mary Fronts, 1945-1946
4. The Crisis of the New Order, 1947-1950
5. Militarization and Third World Integration, 1950-1956
6. Hegemony at High Tide, 1957-1967
7. Dissent, Detente, and Decline, 1968-1976
8. The Carter Cold War, 1977-1980
9. The Reagan Cold War and the Future of Hedemony
Bibliographical Essay
Index

About the Author

Thomas J. McCormick is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His Books include 'China Market'.

Reviews

"Incisive, eminently readable...McCormick reminds his readers of the unfashionable truths of our time: American domination of the postwar order, the weakness and conservatism of the Soviet Union, the gratuitousness of the nuclear arms race."--'Nation' "Original, bold, provocative, important--America's Half-Century deserves all those descriptions...Destined to become one of those handful of books that will be required reading for all serious students of American foreign relations."--Robert J. McMahon, 'Reviews in American History' "A much broader work than many accounts of American cold war policies, especially in the way it uses theories of hegemony and world systems to relate U.S. policies to the changing global environment. It cannot fail to stimulate and, because of its clarity and succinctness, it is likely to be widely used by students."--David Reynolds, 'International History Review'