From colony to superpower
Subtitle: U.S. foreign relations since 1776
By: George C. Herring
Series: The Oxford history of the United States
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1035
ISBN-13: 9780199765539
Subjects: Foreign relations
Notes: Reprint. Previously published in hardback by Oxford University Press in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [965]-995) and index.
Table of contents: title: "To begin the world over again" : foreign policy and the birth of the republic, 1776-1778; title: "None who can make us afraid" : the new republic in a hostile world, 1789-1801; title: "Purified as by fire" : republicanism challenged and reaffirmed, 1801-1815; title: "Leave the rest to us" : the assertive republic, 1815-1837; title: "A dose of arsenic" : slavery, expansionism, and the road to disunion, 1837-1861; title: "Last best hope" : the Union, the Confederacy, and Civil War diplomacy, 1861-1877; title: "A good enough England" : foreign relations in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893; title: The War of 1898 and the dawn of the American century, 1893-1901; title: "Bursting with good intentions" : the United States in world affairs, 1901-1913; title: "A new age" : Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. foreign policy, 1913-1921; title: Involvement without commitment, 1921-1931; title: The great transformation : depression, isolationism, and war, 1931-1941; title: "Five continents and seven seas" : World War II and the emergence of American globalism, 1941-1945; title: "A noble burden far from our shores" : Truman, the Cold War, and the revolution in American foreign policy, 1945-1953; title: Coexistence and crises, 1953-1961; title: Gulliver's troubles: Kennedy, Johnson, and the limits of power, 1961-1969; title: Nixon, Kissinger, and the end of the postwar era, 1969-1974; title: Foreign policy in an age of dissonance, 1974-1981; title: "A unique and extraordinary time in world history" : Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the end of the Cold War, 1981-1991; title: The strength of a giant : America as hyper-power, 1992-2007.