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From colony to superpower : U.S. foreign relations since 1776
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- ISBN: 0195078225 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780195078220 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xvi, 1, 035 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [965]-995) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "To begin the world over again": Foreign policy and the birth of the republic, 1776-1778 -- "None who can make us afraid": The new republic in a hostile world, 1789-1801 -- "Purified as by fire": Republicanism challenged and reaffirmed, 1801-1815 -- "Leave the rest to us": The assertive republic, 1815-1837 -- "A dose of arsenic": Slavery, expansionism, and the road to disunion, 1837-1861 -- "Last best hope": The Union, the Confederacy, and Civil War diplomacy, 1861-1877 -- "A good enough England": Foreign relations in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893 -- The War of 1898 and the dawn of the American century, 1893-1901 -- "Bursting with good intentions": The United States in world affairs, 1901-1913 -- "A new age": Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. foreign policy, 1913-1921 -- Involvement without commitment, 1921-1931 -- The great transformation: Depression, isolationism, and war, 1931-1941 -- "Five continents and seven seas": World War II and the emergence of American globalism, 1941-1945 -- "A noble burden far from our shores": Truman, the Cold War, and the revolution in American foreign policy, 1945-1953 -- Coexistence and crises, 1953-1961 -- Gulliver's troubles: Kennedy, Johnson, and the limits of power, 1961-1969 -- Nixon, Kissinger, and the end of the postwar era, 1969-1974 -- Foreign policy in an age of dissonance, 1974-1981 -- "A unique and extraordinary time in world history": Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the end of the Cold War, 1981-1991 -- The strength of a giant : America as hyper-power, 1992-2007. |
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