Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913

Name: Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913
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ISBN: 9780521483834

ISBN-10: 0521483832

ISBN-13: 9780521483834

Edition: 1995

Authors: Walter LaFeber

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The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes the period between the American Civil War and World War I (1865-1913) as the formative basis for twentieth-century American world power--"The American Century" as it has become known--and examines the "Imperial Presidency" that these roots produced. The extent of U.S. power was so great that it not only transformed American society, but reshaped other societies around the globe as well, by helping fuel--and in some cases directly causing--the great revolutions of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in Mexico, Russia, China, Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, Panama, and Central America. The book, therefore, not only examines…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/28/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



General editor's introduction


Preface



Springboards and strategies



The Second Industrial Revolution at home and abroad



Race for empire



'America will take this continent in hand alone'



Crossing the oceans



1893-1896: Chaos and crises



The empire of 1898 - and upheaval



Pacific empire - and upheaval



Theodore Roosevelt: conservative as revolutionary



William Howard taft and the age of revolution


Conclusion: the 1865-1913 era restated


Bibliographic essay


Index


Maps.