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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jones, Howard, 1940- Crucible of power. A history of American foreign relations from 1897. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008 (OCoLC)608484095 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Howard Jones |
ISBN: | 9780742558250 0742558258 9780742558267 0742558266 |
OCLC Number: | 177058233 |
Description: | xiv, 621 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
Contents: | U.S. imperialism and the new manifest destiny, 1897-1900 -- Theodore Roosevelt and the search for world order, 1900-1913 -- Woodrow Wilson and missionary diplomacy : prologue to U.S. entry into World War I, 1913-1917 -- World War I and the League of Nations, 1917-1921 -- The independent internationalism of the United States, 1921-1933 -- The coming of World War II, 1933-1939 -- From Europe to Pearl Harbor, 1939-1941 -- Wartime diplomacy and the origins of the Cold War, 1941-1945 -- Cold War and containment in Europe and the Near East, 1945-1950 -- Cold War and containment in East Asia, 1950-1953 -- Containment continued : the Eisenhower years, 1953-1961 -- Containment at the brink : Kennedy and Cuba, 1961-1963 -- Containment in collapse : Johnson and Vietnam, 1963-1969 -- Vietnamization through détente : a new containment, 1969-1977 -- The new world order : Jimmy Carter and the diplomacy of human rights, 1977-1981 -- Cold War II: Reagan and the revival of containment, 1981-1989 -- The end of the Cold War and regional conflicts, 1989-2001 -- President George W. Bush and missionary diplomacy : 9/11, the pre-emptive war with Iraq, and the global war on terrorism, 2001- |
Responsibility: | Howard Jones. |
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Abstract:
This book is a narrative history of America's foreign affairs from 1897 to the present that focuses on the major personalities and events from the William McKinley administration through President George W. Bush.
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