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CAMBRIDGE The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations 4 Volume Set 2013 Edition by William Earl Weeks, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen
Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. The first volume proposes that the British North American colonists' pre-existing desire for expansion, security, and prosperity is both the essence of American foreign relations and the root cause for the creation of the United States. The second describes the dynamics of United States foreign policy from 1865 to 1913, the era when the United States became one of the four great world powers and the world's greatest economic power. The third describes how the United States became a global power during the period from 1913 to 1945, from the inception of Woodrow Wilson's presidency to the end of the Second World War. The revised and expanded fourth volume explores the conditions in the international system at the end of World War II, the American determination to provide leadership, and the security dilemma each superpower posed for the other, while incorporating recent scholarship and revelations, and carrying the narrative into Barack Obama's administration. Table of contents :- Volume 1. Dimensions of the Early American Empire, 1754-1865: 1. Origins of the American empire and union; 2. A perilous union, 1783-96; 3. The 'Empire of Liberty' on land and sea; 4. Towards hemispheric superiority; 5. Freedom's empire; 6. Expansionist vistas: Canada, Oregon, California, and Texas; 7. Bulling Britain, conquering Mexico, claiming the canal; 8. Disunion; 9. The imperial crisis, 1861-5. Volume 2. The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913: 1. Springboards and strategies; 2. The second industrial revolution at home and abroad; 3. Race for empire; 4. 'America will take this continent in hand along'; 5. Crossing the oceans; 6. 1893-6: chaos and crises; 7. The empire of 1898 - and beyond; 8. Pacific empire - and upheaval; 9. Theodore Roosevelt: conservative as revolutionary; 10. William Howard Taft and the age of revolution; Conclusion: 11. The 1865-1913 era restated. Volume 3. The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945: 1. The age of European domination; 2. The Great War and American neutrality; 3. The United States at war; 4. The Versailles peace; 5. The 1920s: the security aspect; 6. The 1920s: the economic aspect; 7. The 1920s: the cultural aspect; 8. The collapse of international order; 9. Totalitarianism and the survival of democracy; 10. The emergence of geopolitics; 11. The road to Pearl Harbor; 12. The global conflict. Volume 4. Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present: Part I. The Cold War: 1. At war's end: visions of a new world order; 2. Origins of the Cold War; 3. The Korean War and its consequences; 4. New leaders and new arenas in the Cold War; 5. Crisis revolution; 6. America's longest war; 7. The rise and fall of detente; 8. In God's country; 9. America and the world, 1945-91; Part II. After the Cold War: 10. The new world order; 11. The 'war' against terrorism.