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Crucible of power. A history of American foreign relations from 1897

In this updated edition of Crucible of Power, Howard Jones draws on his remarkable breadth as a historian of U.S. foreign relations to produce a distinguished survey of America's growth from an emerging power in the 1890s to its present day position of global preeminence. Comprehensive, tempered, and highly accessible, Jones demonstrates the complexities facing U.S. policy makers and the limitations on their actions
Print Book, English, ©2008
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2008
xiv, 621 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
9780742558250, 9780742558267, 0742558258, 0742558266
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U.S. imperialism and the new manifest destiny, 1897-1900
Theodore Roosevelt and the search for world order, 1900-1913
Woodrow Wilson and missionary diplomacy : prologue to U.S. entry into World War I, 1913-1917
World War I and the League of Nations, 1917-1921
The independent internationalism of the United States, 1921-1933
The coming of World War II, 1933-1939
From Europe to Pearl Harbor, 1939-1941
Wartime diplomacy and the origins of the Cold War, 1941-1945
Cold War and containment in Europe and the Near East, 1945-1950
Cold War and containment in East Asia, 1950-1953
Containment continued : the Eisenhower years, 1953-1961
Containment at the brink : Kennedy and Cuba, 1961-1963
Containment in collapse : Johnson and Vietnam, 1963-1969
Vietnamization through détente : a new containment, 1969-1977
The new world order : Jimmy Carter and the diplomacy of human rights, 1977-1981
Cold War II: Reagan and the revival of containment, 1981-1989
The end of the Cold War and regional conflicts, 1989-2001
President George W. Bush and missionary diplomacy : 9/11, the pre-emptive war with Iraq, and the global war on terrorism, 2001-