An edition of From colony to superpower (2011)

From colony to superpower

U.S. foreign relations since 1776

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U.S. foreign relations since 1776

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Table of Contents

"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.

Edition Notes

Reprint. Previously published in hardback by Oxford University Press in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [965]-995) and index.

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New York
Series
The Oxford history of the United States

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Dewey Decimal Class
327.73
Library of Congress
E183.7 .H44 2011, E183.7.H44 2011

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xvi, 1035 p., [32] p. of plates :
Number of pages
1035

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OL25261103M
ISBN 13
9780199765539
LCCN
2012371552

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