| Description |
xvi, 1035 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Oxford history of the United States |
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Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [965]-995) and index. |
| 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, expansion, 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. |
| Subject |
United States -- Foreign relations.
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| ISBN |
9780195078220 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0195078225 hardcover alkaline paper |
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