Crucible of power
Subtitle: a history of American foreign relations from 1897
By: Howard Jones.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9780742558250; 9780742558267
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century -- Decision making; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001- -- Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: U.S. imperialism and the new manifest destiny, 1897-1900; title: Theodore Roosevelt and the search for world order, 1900-1913; title: Woodrow Wilson and missionary diplomacy : prologue to U.S. entry into World War I, 1913-1917; title: World War I and the League of Nations, 1917-1921; title: The independent internationalism of the United States, 1921-1933; title: The coming of World War II, 1933-1939; title: From Europe to Pearl Harbor, 1939-1941; title: Wartime diplomacy and the origins of the Cold War, 1941-1945; title: Cold War and containment in Europe and the Near East, 1945-1950; title: Cold War and containment in East Asia, 1950-1953; title: Containment continued : the Eisenhower years, 1953-1961; title: Containment at the brink : Kennedy and Cuba, 1961-1963; title: Containment in collapse : Johnson and Vietnam, 1963-1969; title: Vietnamization through détente : a new containment, 1969-1977; label: 15
title: The new world order : Jimmy Carter and the diplomacy of human rights, 1977-1981
pagenum: 420; title: Cold War II: Reagan and the revival of containment, 1981-1989; title: The end of the Cold War and regional conflicts, 1989-2001; title: President George W. Bush and missionary diplomacy : 9/11, the pre-emptive war with Iraq, and the global war on terrorism, 2001-.