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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 March 2018
      15 March 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316676950
      9781107162150
      9781316614723
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676950
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Throughout American political history, the US government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and rebels. Sometimes, these alliances have been successful, dramatically reshaping the battlefield. But these alliances have also risked creating larger wars in regions where the United States had no real interest. Understanding these alliances - and much of American political history - requires moving beyond our normal focus on traditional diplomats or social elites. Traders, missionaries, former slaves, and low-level government employees drove these alliances. These intermediaries used their relationships across borders to shape security politics, affecting American and thereby world history. Skillfully integrating political science with history and sociology, Eric Grynaviski provides a novel account of who matters and why in international politics. By developing broader views about political agency - how people come to make a difference in world politics - he brings into focus new histories of world politics and how they matter for scholars and the public.

    Awards

    Co-winner, 2019 Diplomatic Studies Section (DPLST) Book Prize, International Studies Association

    Joint-winner, 2019 American Political Science Association Diplomatic Studies Section Book Award

    Reviews

    '… well-written and impressively researched … filled with both theoretical and empirical innovations … Grynaviski provides a welcome critique of state- and leader-centric accounts of international politics.'

    Paul K. MacDonald Source: Perspectives on Politics

    ‘… a deeply rewarding monograph … that reveals the exciting prospects for communication between practitioners of applied history and historical IR. These collaborative pursuits provide a deeper and more thorough understanding of US power and how it operated across time and space.’

    Sean Case Source: H-Net Reviews

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