American foreign affairs : a compact history /

This book provides a compact history of the gradual development of the US into a great power. Most histories of US foreign policy and development concentrate either on economic growth or on relations with the major powers outside the continental United States. This book, however, emphasizes the long...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tullock, Gordon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2009.
Temas:
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Diplomatic relations.
United States > Foreign relations.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Purposes of foreign policy
  • Historical background
  • The balance of power and the revolution
  • The Revolutionary War
  • Early policy, looking East
  • 1815 to 1890 to the East
  • West of the Appalachians, the early period
  • More on the West
  • European empires
  • Since 1890, the modern period
  • Between the wars (part 1)
  • World War I
  • Between the wars (part 2)
  • World War II (part 1)
  • The United States after 1890
  • World War II (part 2)
  • Appendix on China.

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