American foreign relations since independence /
This book provides a succinct and accessible interpretation of the major event and ideas that have shaped U.S. foreign relations since the American Revolution-historical factors that now affect our current debates and commitments in the Middle East as well as Europe and Asia.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, California :
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
[2013]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781299548268 1299548261 9781440800528 1440800529 9798216045892 8216045891 9788216045893 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The diplomacy of the Revolution
- The new republic in a world at war
- The War of 1812: reestablishing American independence
- The Monroe Doctrine and latin american independence
- Manifest Destiny triumphant: Oregon, Texas, and California
- A house divided: diplomacy during the Civil War
- Territorial and commercial expansionism: Alaska, the Caribbean, and the Far East
- War with Spain and the new Manifest Destiny
- The United States adjusts to its new status
- Woodrow Wilson and world at war
- The slow death of Versailles
- World War II: the grand alliance
- A new global struggle: founding of the UN to the Cold War-- Crises, conflicts and coexistence
- The United States and Southeast Asia: Laos Cambodia, and Vietnam
- Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
- The United States and the Middle East: Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq
- Twenty-first century challenges.