The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
Author: Walter LaFeber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521381857

The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes the period between the American Civil War and World War I (1865-1913) as the formative basis for twentieth-century American world power--"The American Century" as it has become known--and examines the "Imperial Presidency" that these roots produced. The extent of U.S. power was so great that it not only transformed American society, but reshaped other societies around the globe as well, by helping fuel--and in some cases directly causing--the great revolutions of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in Mexico, Russia, China, Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, Panama, and Central America. The book, therefore, not only examines American history, but the history of many other areas that were dramatically affected by U.S. power as they entered the twentieth century.

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present
Author: Warren I. Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316175626

Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. The fourth volume of the updated edition explores the conditions in the international system at the end of World War II, the American determination to provide leadership, and the security dilemma each superpower posed for the other. This revised and expanded edition incorporates recent scholarship and revelations, carrying the narrative through the years following the end of the Cold War into the administration of Barack Obama. The character of the American political system is explored, including the separation of political powers and the role of interest groups that prompted American leaders to exaggerate dangers abroad to enhance their domestic power. This new edition examines the conditions in the international system from the end of World War II to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 1, The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 1, The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865
Author: Bradford Perkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1995-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521483841

Tracing American foreign relations from the colonial era to the end of the Civil war, this volume describes and explains, in the diplomatic context, the process by which the United States was born, transformed into a republican nation, and extended into a continental empire.

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991
Author: Bradford Perkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521483810

'Happily the new, four-volume book provides an opportunity to scan the past two centuries for indications of the shape of foreign policy in the post-Cold War world. Each of the four books stands on its own. Each offers a clear overview of a particular period written by a distinguished historian drawing on considerable body of research, itself the product of decades of scholarly endeavor. None is simply a chronicle of events.'- World Policy Journal

Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations

Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
Author: Michael J. Hogan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2004-01-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521540353

Originally published in 1991, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations has become an indispensable volume not only for teachers and students in international history and political science, but also for general readers seeking an introduction to American diplomatic history. This collection of essays highlights a variety of newer, innovative, and stimulating conceptual approaches and analytical methods used to study the history of American foreign relations, including bureaucratic, dependency, and world systems theories, corporatist and national security models, psychology, culture, and ideology. Along with substantially revised essays from the first edition, this volume presents entirely new material on postcolonial theory, borderlands history, modernization theory, gender, race, memory, cultural transfer, and critical theory. The book seeks to define the study of American international history, stimulate research in fresh directions, and encourage cross-disciplinary thinking, especially between diplomatic history and other fields of American history, in an increasingly transnational, globalizing world.

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the Present

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the Present
Author: David C. Engerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 903
Release: 2022-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108317855

The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world. The second half of the twentieth century marked the pinnacle of American global power in economic, political, and cultural terms, but even as it reached such heights, the United States quickly faced new challenges to its power, originating both domestically and internationally. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, this volume anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to 'the American empire.' Topics include US economic and military power, American culture overseas, human rights and humanitarianism, third-world internationalism, immigration, communications technology, and the Anthropocene.

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 3, 1900–1945

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 3, 1900–1945
Author: Brooke L. Blower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2022-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108317847

The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. Showcasing the most innovative approaches to both traditional topics and emerging themes, leading scholars chart the complex ways in which Americans projected their growing influence across the globe; how others interpreted and constrained those efforts; how Americans disagreed with each other, often fiercely, about foreign relations; and how race, religion, gender, and other factors shaped their worldviews. During the early twentieth century, accelerating forces of global interdependence presented Americans, like others, with a set of urgent challenges from managing borders, humanitarian crises, economic depression, and modern warfare to confronting the radical, new political movements of communism, fascism, and anticolonial nationalism. This volume will set the standard for new understandings of this pivotal moment in the history of America and the world.

The Cambridge History of the Cold War

The Cambridge History of the Cold War
Author: Melvyn P. Leffler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521837197

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period. A team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period.

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
Author: Bradford Perkins
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1993-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN:

This work, part of a four-volume set, describes the history of the foreign relations of the United States from 1913 to 1945, a period of two world wars as well as of momentous changes that brought European domination to an end. The United States emerged as