America in the World
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America in the World

A History in Documents since 1898, Revised and Updated

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

America in the World

A History in Documents since 1898, Revised and Updated

About this book

A wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations—now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to today

How should America wield its power beyond its borders? Should it follow grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it work in concert with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? America in the World captures the voices and viewpoints of some of the most provocative, eloquent, and influential people who participated in these and other momentous debates. Now fully revised and updated, this anthology brings together primary texts spanning a century and a half of U.S. foreign relations, illuminating how Americans have been arguing about the nation’s role in the world since its emergence as a world power in the late nineteenth century.

  • Features more than 250 primary-source documents, reflecting an extraordinary range of views
  • Includes two new chapters on the Trump years and the return of great power rivalries under Biden
  • Sweeps broadly from the Gilded Age to emerging global challenges such as COVID-19
  • Shares the perspectives of presidents, secretaries of state, and generals as well as those of poets, songwriters, clergy, newspaper columnists, and novelists
  • Also includes non-American perspectives on U.S. power

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Motives of Expansion
  6. 2. Imperial America: War with Spain and the Philippines
  7. 3. Varieties of Empire
  8. 4. The Rise and Fall of Wilsonianism
  9. 5. Isolation and Intervention
  10. 6. World War II
  11. 7. The Beginning of the Cold War
  12. 8. The Korean War and the Cold War of the 1950s
  13. 9. The Nationalist Challenge
  14. 10. Years of Crisis
  15. 11. The Vietnam War
  16. 12. The Era of Détente
  17. 13. Escalating and Ending the Cold War
  18. 14. Globalization after the Cold War
  19. 15. The Age of Terror
  20. 16. The Liberal Order in Crisis
  21. 17. Great Powers and Global Challenges
  22. Sources
  23. Index