The Cambridge History Of America And The World Volume 4 1945 To The Present

Author : David C. Engerman,Max Paul Friedman,Melani McAlister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108317856

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The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the Present by David C. Engerman,Max Paul Friedman,Melani McAlister Pdf

The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world. The second half of the twentieth century marked the pinnacle of American global power in economic, political, and cultural terms, but even as it reached such heights, the United States quickly faced new challenges to its power, originating both domestically and internationally. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, this volume anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to 'the American empire.' Topics include US economic and military power, American culture overseas, human rights and humanitarianism, third-world internationalism, immigration, communications technology, and the Anthropocene.

Author : Bradford Perkins,Walter LaFeber,Warren I. Cohen,Akira Iriye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0521483816

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The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991 by Bradford Perkins,Walter LaFeber,Warren I. Cohen,Akira Iriye Pdf

'Happily the new, four-volume book provides an opportunity to scan the past two centuries for indications of the shape of foreign policy in the post-Cold War world. Each of the four books stands on its own. Each offers a clear overview of a particular period written by a distinguished historian drawing on considerable body of research, itself the product of decades of scholarly endeavor. None is simply a chronicle of events.'- World Policy Journal

Author : Warren I. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316171485

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The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations by Warren I. Cohen Pdf

Author : Warren I. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316175620

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The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present by Warren I. Cohen Pdf

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 fourth volume of the updated edition 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. This revised and expanded edition incorporates recent scholarship and revelations, carrying the narrative through the years following the end of the Cold War into the administration of Barack Obama. The character of the American political system is explored, including the separation of political powers and the role of interest groups that prompted American leaders to exaggerate dangers abroad to enhance their domestic power. This new edition examines the conditions in the international system from the end of World War II to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

Author : Brooke L. Blower,Andrew Preston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1108419267

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The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 3, 1900-1945 by Brooke L. Blower,Andrew Preston Pdf

The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. Showcasing the most innovative approaches to both traditional topics and emerging themes, leading scholars chart the complex ways in which Americans projected their growing influence across the globe; how others interpreted and constrained those efforts; how Americans disagreed with each other, often fiercely, about foreign relations; and how race, religion, gender, and other factors shaped their worldviews. During the early twentieth century, accelerating forces of global interdependence presented Americans, like others, with a set of urgent challenges from managing borders, humanitarian crises, economic depression, and modern warfare to confronting the radical, new political movements of communism, fascism, and anticolonial nationalism. This volume will set the standard for new understandings of this pivotal moment in the history of America and the world.

Author : Walter LaFeber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521381851

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The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations by Walter LaFeber Pdf

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 American history, but the history of many other areas that were dramatically affected by U.S. power as they entered the twentieth century.

Author : Stefan Aune
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : America
ISBN : 9780520395404

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Indian Wars Everywhere by Stefan Aune Pdf

References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation "Geronimo" used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In Indian Wars Everywhere, Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine that influences US military violence. The United States' formative acts of colonial violence persist in the actions, imaginations, and stories that have facilitated the spread of American empire, from the "savage wars" of the nineteenth century to the counterinsurgencies of the Global War on Terror. Ranging across centuries and continents, Indian Wars Everywhere considers what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be deemed a success that can be used as a blueprint for modern warfare.

Author : Warren I. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1139054686

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The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991 by Warren I. Cohen Pdf

This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of detente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analyzed and clearly explained.

Author : Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216062486

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The Cold War [2 volumes] [2 volumes] by Priscilla Roberts Pdf

This detailed two-volume set tells the story of the Cold War, the dominant international event of the second half of the 20th century, through a diverse selection of primary source documents. One of the most extensive to date, this set of primary source documents studies the Cold War comprehensively from its beginning, with the emergence of the world's first communist government in Russia in late 1917, to its end, in 1991. All of the key events, including the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the nuclear arms race, are discussed in detail. The primary sources provide insight into the thinking of all participants, drawing on Western, Soviet, Asian, and Latin American perspectives. In The Cold War: Interpreting Conflict through Primary Documents primary documents are organized chronologically, allowing readers to appreciate the ramifications of the Cold War within a clear time frame. Extensive interpretive commentary provides in-depth background and context for each document. This work is an indispensable reference for all readers seeking to become deeply knowledgeable about the Cold War.

Author : William Earl Weeks,Walter LaFeber,Akira Iriye,Warren I. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521763622

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The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations by William Earl Weeks,Walter LaFeber,Akira Iriye,Warren I. Cohen Pdf

This book explores the conditions of international relations from the end of WWII to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

Author : Steven W. Hook,John Spanier,Andrea K. Grove
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781071814697

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American Foreign Policy Since World War II by Steven W. Hook,John Spanier,Andrea K. Grove Pdf

Now in its Twenty-Second Edition, Hook, Spanier, and Grove’s American Foreign Policy Since World War II has long set the standard in guiding students through the complexities of American foreign policy. The text introduces students to the American "style" of foreign policy, imbued with a distinct sense of national exceptionalism. By giving students the historical context they need, this book allows them to truly grasp the functions and dysfunctions of the nation’s foreign policy agenda with historical insight into modern policy context.

Author : Roger Chickering,Dennis Showalter,Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316175927

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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World by Roger Chickering,Dennis Showalter,Hans van de Ven Pdf

Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.

Author : D. W. Meinig
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300173949

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The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History by D. W. Meinig Pdf

This landmark book, the concluding volume of D. W. Meinig’s magisterial series The Shaping of America, presents the story of America’s interwoven history and geography from 1915 to 2000. The author describes decades of enormous national growth and change in his characteristic engaging style, and through more than seventy original maps he ingeniously depicts diverse twentieth-century trends and developments. The book addresses the expanding nation’s progress in terms of the automotive revolution; neotechnic evolution; access to air travel; growth of instantaneous forms of communication, including telephones, television, and the Internet; and such political events as World War II. Meinig relates these developments to social and geographic trends, among them patterns of urban migration, regionalism, metropolitanization, the beginnings of the urban megalopolis, shifts in ethnic and religious populations, and, on a more global scale, transformations in America’s connections with Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A masterful synthesis of twentieth-century history and geography, this book offers unprecedented insights into the shaping and reshaping of the United States over the past century.

Author : George N. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:990258115

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The New Cambridge Modern History by George N. Clark Pdf

Author : Warren I. Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0674007654

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The Asian American Century by Warren I. Cohen Pdf

In a perceptive and engaging meditation on the relationship between East Asia and the United States, Cohen examines how cultural influences have transformed and benefited both Asians and Americans.