From colony to superpower : U.S. foreign relations since 1776 / / George C. Herring.

• Superior document: The Oxford history of the United States
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Herring, George C., 1936-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford history of the United States.
• Physical Description: xvi, 1035 p., [32] p. of plates :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

• "To begin the world over again" : foreign policy and the birth of the republic, 1776-1778
• "None who can make us afraid" : the new republic in a hostile world, 1789-1801
• "Purified as by fire" : republicanism challenged and reaffirmed, 1801-1815
• "Leave the rest to us" : the assertive republic, 1815-1837
• "A dose of arsenic" : slavery, expansionism, and the road to disunion, 1837-1861
• "Last best hope" : the Union, the Confederacy, and Civil War diplomacy, 1861-1877
• "A good enough England" : foreign relations in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893
• The War of 1898 and the dawn of the American century, 1893-1901
• "Bursting with good intentions" : the United States in world affairs, 1901-1913
• "A new age" : Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. foreign policy, 1913-1921
• Involvement without commitment, 1921-1931
• The great transformation : depression, isolationism, and war, 1931-1941
• "Five continents and seven seas" : World War II and the emergence of American globalism, 1941-1945
• "A noble burden far from our shores" : Truman, the Cold War, and the revolution in American foreign policy, 1945-1953
• Coexistence and crises, 1953-1961
• Gulliver's troubles: Kennedy, Johnson, and the limits of power, 1961-1969
• Nixon, Kissinger, and the end of the postwar era, 1969-1974
• Foreign policy in an age of dissonance, 1974-1981
• "A unique and extraordinary time in world history" : Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the end of the Cold War, 1981-1991
• The strength of a giant : America as hyper-power, 1992-2007.