LEADER 04064nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910454143603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-86819-1 010 $a9786611868192 010 $a0-19-972343-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000706143 035 $a(EBL)415323 035 $a(OCoLC)299054528 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001038211 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12441052 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001038211 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11046043 035 $a(PQKB)11120790 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158680 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11163063 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158680 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10149679 035 $a(PQKB)11588495 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415323 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415323 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10263662 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL186819 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000706143 100 $a20080222d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom colony to superpower$b[electronic resource] $eU.S. foreign relations since 1776 /$fGeorge C. Herring 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (1054 p.) 225 1 $aThe Oxford history of the United States 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-976553-7 311 $a0-19-507822-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [965]-995) and index. 327 $a"To begin the world over again" : foreign policy and the birth of the republic, 1776-1778 -- "None who can make us afraid" : the new republic in a hostile world, 1789-1801 -- "Purified as by fire" : republicanism challenged and reaffirmed, 1801-1815 -- "Leave the rest to us" : the assertive republic, 1815-1837 -- "A dose of arsenic" : slavery, expansionism, and the road to disunion, 1837-1861 -- "Last best hope" : the Union, the Confederacy, and Civil War diplomacy, 1861-1877 -- "A good enough England" : foreign relations in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893 -- The War of 1898 and the dawn of the American century, 1893-1901 -- "Bursting with good intentions" : the United States in world affairs, 1901-1913 -- "A new age" : Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. foreign policy, 1913-1921 -- Involvement without commitment, 1921-1931 -- The great transformation : depression, isolationism, and war, 1931-1941 -- "Five continents and seven seas" : World War II and the emergence of American globalism, 1941-1945 -- "A noble burden far from our shores" : Truman, the Cold War, and the revolution in American foreign policy, 1945-1953 -- Coexistence and crises, 1953-1961 -- Gulliver's troubles: Kennedy, Johnson, and the limits of power, 1961-1969 -- Nixon, Kissinger, and the end of the postwar era, 1969-1974 -- Foreign policy in an age of dissonance, 1974-1981 -- "A unique and extraordinary time in world history" : Gorbachev, Reagan, Bush, and the end of the Cold War, 1981-1991 -- The strength of a giant : America as hyper-power, 1992-2007. 330 $aThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. A sweeping account of United States' foreign relations a 410 0$aOxford history of the United States. 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a327.73 700 $aHerring$b George C.$f1936-$0942147 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454143603321 996 $aFrom colony to superpower$92125783 997 $aUNINA