Awkward Dominion: American Political Economic and Cultural Relations with Europe 19191933

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In Awkward Dominion Frank Costigliola offers a striking interpretation of the emergence of the United States as a world power in the 1920s a period in which the country faced both burdens and opportunities as a result of the First World War. Exploring the key international issues in the interwar periodpeace treaty revisions Western economic recovery and modernizationCostigliola considers American political and economic success in light of Europes fascination with American technology trade and culture. The figures through which he tells this story include Herbert Hoover Calvin Coolidge Henry Stimson Charles Lindberg Ernest Hemingway and Henry Ford.