American foreign affairs : a compact history / Gordon Tullock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tullock, Gordon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a compact history of the gradual development of the US into a great power. Most histories of US foreign policy and development concentrate either on economic growth or on relations with the major powers outside the continental United States. This book, however, emphasizes the longstanding conflict between the US and the American Indians and Mexico, and how the development of the United States as a great power depended primarily on its seizure of large areas of land from their previous inhabitants. Covering Christopher Columbus' famous voyage and US colonial policy up to Worl

Contents:

Purposes of foreign policy

Historical background

The balance of power and the revolution

The Revolutionary War

Early policy, looking East

1815 to 1890 to the East

West of the Appalachians, the early period

More on the West

European empires

Since 1890, the modern period

Between the wars (part 1)

World War I

Between the wars (part 2)

World War II (part 1)

The United States after 1890

World War II (part 2)

Appendix on China.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163) and index.

ISBN:

9786612441226

9781282441224

1282441221

9789812835086

9812835083

OCLC:

557650592