American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1: To 1920

Name: American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1: To 1920
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ISBN: 9780393964752

ISBN-10: 0393964752

ISBN-13: 9780393964752

Edition: 2nd 1994

Authors: Walter LaFeber

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His narrative account featured several major politics; the impact of American economic development on foreign policy interests; popular culture, particularly film, as a filter for public opinion on American commitments abroad; the roles of public opinion, leadership, and bureaucracy in the formation of policy.In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every chapter in the book. In the early chapters, there is more attention to the origins of foreign policy institutions and practices, including precedents for the executive agreement, and new discussions of U.S. relations with Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The more recent chapters feature fresh insights on…

Book details

List price: $34.80
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition



The Roots of American Foreign Policy (1492-1789)



A Second Struggle for Independence and Union (1789-1815)



The First, the Last: John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine (1815-1828)



The Amphibious Expansion of a Sixty-Five-Hundred-Thousand- Horsepower Steam Engine (1828-1850)



The Climax of Early U.S. Foreign Policy: The Civil War (1850-1865)



Laying the Foundations for """"Superpowerdom"""" (1865-1896)



Turning Point: The Mckinley Years (1896-1900)



The Search for Opportunity: Rough Riders and Dollar Diplomats (1901-1913)



Wilsonians, Revolutions, and War (1913-1917)



Victors Without Peace (1917-1920)



The Rise and Fall of the American Structure for World Order (1920-1955)



Fdr and the Entry into World War II (1933-1941)



World War Ii: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Alliance (1941-1945)



The Cold War, or the Renewal of U.S.-Russian Rivalry (1945-1949)



The Big Turn: The Era of the Korean War (1949-1952)



The Era of Eisenhower: The Good Old Days (1953-1960)



Jfk and Lbj: From the New Frontier Through the Great Society to Vietnam (1961-1969)



Coming to Terms with History: The Nixon-Kissinger Years (1969-1976)



Back to the Future: The Carter-Reagan Years (1977-1988)



New World Order to World Disorder: Bush and Clinton (1989-1993)


U.S. Presidents and Secretaries of State


General Bibliography


Acknowledgments for the First Edition


Photo Credits


Index