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From Colony to Superpowerby George C. Herring
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 19.95The 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 and diplomacy, this magisterial volume documents America's interaction with other peoples and nations of the world. Herring tells a story... more...
Fifty Years Warby Richard Crockatt
Routledge 1994; US$ 74.95This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Cold war and the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union that has dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. more...
USA in the Making of the USSRby Paul Dukes
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 170.00The author shows that, even though Russia was not invited to the Washington Conference of 1921-22, the 'Russian Question' was one of the major influences on the statesmen who did attend. more...
From Arab Nationalism to OPEC, second editionby Nathan J. Citino
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 33.55As OPEC approaches its 50th anniversary, the paperback edition of Nathan J. Citino's well-received study advances a challenging, revisionist interpretation of U.S.-Saudi relations and OPEC's historical significance. Citino re-examines the relationship between President Eisenhower and King Sa'ūd in the context of the transition from British imperial hegemony to an American capitalist order in the Middle East. He shows how the political realignment that resulted in OPEC ensured that wealth and power subsequently remained in the hands of oil-producing governments. Using American and British archives, corporate records, and Arabic ... more...
Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Centuryby Alan P. Dobson
Routledge 1995; US$ 54.95Dobson's concise and readable book covers the whole of this century and employs selected historical detail to expose the special relationship between Britain and America in its true light. more...
Don't Disturb the Neighborsby Jacqueline Mazza
Routledge 2001; US$ 46.95Don't Disturb the Neighbors provides a comprehensive review and analysis of US Mexican relations over the past two decades - from the days of the Central American crisis of the Reagan administration to the 1995 Mexican Peso Crisis. more...
United States and Cambodia, 1969-2000by Kenton Clymer
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 195.00This book is a diplomatic history of relations between the US and Cambodia from the Vietnam war to Clinton's visit there in the late 1990s. more...
American Editor in Early Revolutionary Chinaby Neil L. O'Brien
Routledge 2003; US$ 153.00This is a study of Sino-American relations and the editorial policy of the China Weekly Review/China Monthly Review, published in Shanghai by John William Powell during the Chinese Civil War. more...
Europe, America, Bushby John Peterson; Mark A. Pollack
Routledge 2003; US$ 47.50In this book, American and European experts assess transatlantic relations on matters of foreign and security policy, economic diplomacy, justice and internal security cooperation, environmental policy and relations with Russia. more...
Reagan and Gorbachevby Jack Matlock
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 13.99In Reagan and Gorbachev , Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan’s principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: He was the point person for Reagan’s evolving policy of conciliation toward the Soviet Union. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and archival sources both here and abroad, Matlock offers an insider’s perspective on a diplomatic campaign far more sophisticated than previously thought, led by two men of surpassing vision. Matlock details how, from the start of his term, Reagan privately pursued improved U.S.—U.S.S.R.... more...