{"product_id":"2940149340651","title":"America and The New World-State: A Plea for American Leadership in International Organization","description":"America and The New World-State: A Plea for American Leadership in International Organization written by Living the Great Illusion: by Sir Norman Angell, 1872-1967,  Author of \"The Great Illusion,\" \"Arms and Industry,\" etc. Published in New York and London in 1915 (348 pages)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...This  book is published in the hope that it may contribute, in however small measure, to forming on the part of the American people that \"Will\" (without which no \"way\" can be devised) to take the leadership in the civilization of Christendom, for which its situation and the happy circumstances of its history furnish so good an opportunity.\u003cbr\u003e...The leadership here contemplated is of a new kind: it is not military, it is not imposed upon unwilling peoples, but it would be leadership none the less; and if the American people can but achieve the inspiration and form this Will, it would mark a chapter in the history of human society as important as the invention of printing, the Reformation, or the discoveries of Columbus.\u003cbr\u003e...I trust that this earnest of what I am hoping for America may protect me from any possibility of the reader's misunderstanding two chapters: \"A Retrospect of American Patriotism,\" and \"Anglophobia and other Aberrations.\" For if this mission of America is to be fulfilled, American patriotism must be purged of some of the qualities which have marked the militarist, medieval, political, patriotism of the Old Worid. If the reader hopes to find in this book some famiHar restatement of the plea that the inhabitants of this comer of the Western continent alone of all the men who have ever lived upon this planet have no need to watch their conduct and their temper, then he had better put the book down, as he will not find it. These two chapters, for instance, (reprinted the one from neariy twenty years back, and the other from some decade back,) recall certain of our political aberrations of the past. It is necessary so to recall them if in the mission that I hope lies before us we are to avoid certain dangers which might irretrievably wreck it. The sane and human, to say nothing of the wise and noble attitude, is the determination that in the fulfilment of the great task to which we may shortly set our hands, we shall avoid those errors into which we, in common with all peoples, have fallen in the past by realizing to the full in what they consist. Throughout I have written as an American. At a very early age I acquired American citizenship and though by necessarily prolonged absences in Europe I have reverted to British citizenship, I always claim the right in dealing with American problems, to speak as an American, because in those cases I feel as one. It is as an American that I envisage the problems here dealt with: and so I write.\u003cbr\u003eNorman Angell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW WORLD-STATE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. The End of the Era of Isolation\u003cbr\u003eChapter II. America's future  —  the alternatives \u003cbr\u003eChapter III. America as Leader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II \u003cbr\u003eTHE DOCTRINES THAT MAKE WAR \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. The Moral Foundations of Prussianism\u003cbr\u003eChapter II. Anglo-Saxon Prussianism\u003cbr\u003eChapter III. A Retrospect of American Patriotism\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV. Anglophobia and other Aberrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003eCAN ARMS ALONE DESTROY PRUSSIANISM?\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101120348400,"sku":"2940149340651","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149340651_p0.jpg?v=1763722666","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149340651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}