William Earl Weeks is Lecturer in History at San Diego State University. He is the author of John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire (1992) and Building the Continental Empire, 1815-1861, and co-editor of American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (2003).
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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