The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations 4 Volume Set

Volume 1. Dimensions of the Early American Empire, 1754-1865: 1. Origins of the American empire and union; 2. A perilous union, 1783-96; 3. The 'Empire of Liberty' on land and sea; 4. Towards hemispheric superiority; 5. Freedom's empire; 6. Expansionist vistas: Canada, Oregon, California, and Texas; 7. Bulling Britain, conquering Mexico, claiming the canal; 8. Disunion; 9. The imperial crisis, 1861-5. Volume 2. The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913: 1. Springboards and strategies; 2. The second industrial revolution at home and abroad; 3. Race for empire; 4. 'America will take this continent in hand along'; 5. Crossing the oceans; 6. 1893-6: chaos and crises; 7. The empire of 1898 - and beyond; 8. Pacific empire - and upheaval; 9. Theodore Roosevelt: conservative as revolutionary; 10. William Howard Taft and the age of revolution; Conclusion: 11. The 1865-1913 era restated. Volume 3. The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945: 1. The age of European domination; 2. The Great War and American neutrality; 3. The United States at war; 4. The Versailles peace; 5. The 1920s: the security aspect; 6. The 1920s: the economic aspect; 7. The 1920s: the cultural aspect; 8. The collapse of international order; 9. Totalitarianism and the survival of democracy; 10. The emergence of geopolitics; 11. The road to Pearl Harbor; 12. The global conflict. Volume 4. Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present: Part I. The Cold War: 1. At war's end: visions of a new world order; 2. Origins of the Cold War; 3. The Korean War and its consequences; 4. New leaders and new arenas in the Cold War; 5. Crisis revolution; 6. America's longest war; 7. The rise and fall of détente; 8. In God's country; 9. America and the world, 1945-91; Part II. After the Cold War: 10. The new world order; 11. The 'war' against terrorism.