From colony to superpower : U.S. foreign relations since 1776 / George C. Herring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herring, George C., 1936-2022.

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Series:

Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered)

The Oxford history of the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

International relations.

Diplomatic relations.

Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores.

Local Subjects:

Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores.

Physical Description:

xvi, 1035 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Historian Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's rise from thirteen disparate colonies along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. He documents America's interaction with other peoples and nations, a story of stunning successes and sometimes tragic failures, captured in a fast-paced narrative that illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation, and highlights its ongoing impact on the lives of ordinary citizens. He shows how policymakers defined American interests broadly to include territorial expansion, access to growing markets, and the spread of an "American way" of life, and how much America's expansion as a nation also owes to the adventurers and explorers, the merchants and captains of industry, the missionaries and diplomats, who discovered or charted new lands, developed new avenues of commerce, and established and defended the nation's interests in foreign lands.--From publisher description.

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 imperiled 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, the new empire, 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 the quest for a new world order, 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 rise of American globalism, 1941-1945

"A novel burden far from our shores" : Truman, the Cold War, and the revolution in U.S. foreign policy, 1945-1953

Coexistence and crises, 1953-1961

Gulliver's troubles : Kennedy, Johnson, and the limits of power, 1961-1968

Nixon, Kissinger, and the end of the postwar era, 1969-1974

Foreign policy in an age of dissonance, 1974-1981

"A unique and extraordinary moment" : Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the end of the Cold War, 1981-1991

"The strength of a giant" : America as hyperpower, 1992-2007.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 965-995) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780195078220

0195078225

OCLC:

212018624

Publisher Number:

9780195078220