Title : | The Rise to Globalism : American Foreign Policy Since 1938 |
Material Type: | printed text |
Authors: | Stephen E. Ambrose, Author ; Alan Brinkley, Author |
Edition statement: | 8th edition |
Publisher: | New York : Penguin Books |
Publication Date: | 1997 |
Pagination: | 464 p. |
Size: | 21 cm |
ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-14-026831-7 |
General note: | Includes index (p. [444]-464) |
Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
Descriptors: | United States - International politics
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Class number: | 327.73 |
Abstract: | This is a classic survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term, now fully revised. |
Contents note: | The twisting path to war; The war in Europe; The war in Asia; The beginnings of the Cold War; The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; Containment tested; Korea; Eisenhower, Dulles and the irreconcilable conflict; From Hungary and Suez to Cuba; Kennedy and the new frontiers; Vietnam - paying the cost of containment; Nixon, detente, and the debacle in Vietnam; America in the Middle East and Africa; Carter and human rights; Reagan and the evil empire; The end of the Cold War; Bush and the Gulf War; Clinton and Democratic enlargement; |
Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14116 |