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Product Description: Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The thesis allows for use of anecdote and quotation to exemplify the policies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Traces the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from its roots to the present, considering the role of presidential power and surveying the world events which have shaped and continue to effect the United States' political relations. (view table of contents)

Traces the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from its roots to the present, considering the role of presidential power and surveying the world events which have shaped and continue to effect the United States' political relations.

Traces the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from its roots to the present, considering the role of presidential power and surveying the world events which have shaped and continue to effect the United States' political relations. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This survey attempts to help US students put events in the history of their country in a global context. The book covers the social political, economic, legal and cultural aspects of history, and aims to take into account a wide range of modern historical opinion...read more

"The American Century" is a succinct, well-written history of the United States in the modern (post-1890's) era. It is valuable for either the second half of U.S. survey courses or for 20th Century U.S. courses for upper class students. The text places special emphasis on economic and urban growth, social and political change, civil rights and liberties, and the growth of the U.S. into a global superpower. The specialization of each author contributes to an unusually strong balance of coverage. The authors handle both domestic and foreign policy issues and demonstrate the ways in which domestic and foreign policies are linked.

Product Description: Incomparable in its depth, scope, and insight, the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations explores America's past via the unique perspective of America's connections with the rest of the world. Organised chronologically from the country's founding to the 1990s, each of the four volumes is written by a leading historian...read more

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Presents an in-depth study of how the U.S. and Japan, with divergent political orientations, have competed and collided with each other and explains why the relationship remains immensely important, highly fragile, and misunderstood on both sides of the Pacific. (view table of contents)

Presents a study of how the U.S. and Japan have competed and collided with each other and explains why the relationship remains important, highly fragile, and misunderstood on both sides of the Pacific

Product Description: The steep hills and dramatic gorges of Ithaca were the setting for a revolution in American education when, in the 1860s, a self-made man sought "to do the most good . . . to the poor and to posterity." Ezra Cornell's philanthropy, enhanced with funds from the Morrill Land Grant Act and enlarged by the vision of educator Andrew Dickson White, created what has been called the first American university―'a modern, democratic, research-oriented institution open to young men and women of all creeds and races...read more

Analyzes and evaluates United States activities, over the decades, in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica (view table of contents)