George C. Herring

The American Century and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014

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Produktbeschreibung

In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States seemed poised to achieve a position of world power beyond what even Washington could have imagined. In The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014, the second volume of a new split paperback edition of the award-winning From Colony to Superpower, George C. Herring recounts the rise of the United States from the dawn of what came to be known as the American Century. This fast-paced narrative tells a story of stunning successes and tragic failures, illuminating the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation. Herring shows how policymakers defined American interests broadly to include territorial expansion, access to growing markets, and the spread of the "American way of life." He recounts the United States' domination of the Caribbean and Pacific, its decisive involvement in two world wars, and the eventual victory in the half-century Cold War that left it, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world's lone superpower. But the unipolar moment turned out to be stunningly brief. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the emergence of nations such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China have left the United States in a position that is uncertain at best. A new chapter brings Herring's sweeping narrative up through the Global War on Terror to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190649265
• Artikelnr.: 47734672

Autorenporträt

George C. Herring is Alumni Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. A leading authority on U.S. foreign relations, he is the former editor of Diplomatic History and a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War, among other books.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction * 1. The War of 1898 and the Dawn of the American Century
1893-190119. "Bursting with Good Intentions": The United States in World Affairs
1901-1913 * 2. "A New Age": Wilson
the Great War
and U.S. Foreign Policy
1913-1921 * 3. Involvement Without Commitment
1921-1931 * 4. The Great Transformation: Depression
Isolationism
and War
1931-1941 * 5. "Five Continents and Seven Seas": World War II and the Emergence of American Globalism
1941-1945 * 6. "A Noble Burden Far From Our Shores": Truman
the Cold War
and the Revolution in American Foreign Policy
1945-1953 * 7. Coexistence and Crises
1953-1961 * 8. Gulliver's Troubles: Kennedy
Johnson
and the Limits of Power
1961-1969 * 9. Nixon
Kissinger
and the End of the Postwar Era
1969-1974 * 10. Foreign Policy in an Age of Dissonance
1974-1981 * 11. "A Unique and Extraordinary Time in World History": Gorbachev
Reagan
Bush
and the End of the Cold War
1981-1991 * 12. The Strength of a Giant: America as Hyperpower
1992-2001 * 13. From 9/11 to the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
2001-2013 * Epilogue * Bibiliographic Essay