Re-imagining America : the Princeton Military Studies Group and the cultivation of the national security imagination, 1933-1947

This essay examines the invention of national security in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. Whereas previously Americans spoke of ‘national defense,’ by 1945 ‘national security’ became common parlance and Washington began building the national security state. I argue that a group of social s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fergie, Dexter
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59545