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The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014 (Oxford History of the United States) 2nd Edition

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In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States seemed poised to achieve a position of world power beyond what even Washington could have imagined.

In The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014, the second volume of a new split paperback edition of the award-winning From Colony to Superpower, George C. Herring recounts the rise of the United States from the dawn of what came to be known as the American Century. This fast-paced narrative tells a story of stunning successes and tragic failures, illuminating the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation. Herring shows how policymakers defined American interests broadly to include territorial expansion, access to growing markets, and the spread of the "American way of life." He recounts the United States' domination of the Caribbean and Pacific, its decisive involvement in two world wars, and the eventual victory in the half-century Cold War that left it, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world's lone superpower.

But the unipolar moment turned out to be stunningly brief. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the emergence of nations such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China have left the United States in a position that is uncertain at best. A new chapter brings Herring's sweeping narrative up through the Global War on Terror to the present.
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    0190212470
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0190212476
  3. Edition
    2nd
  4. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  5. Publication date
    February 20, 2017
  6. Part of series
    Oxford History of the United States
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    9.2 x 1.7 x 6.1 inches
  9. Print length
    768 pages
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"This book will be on my reading list for the foreseeable future and will be a 'go-to' text for any student who argues that the United States is an unqualified good in world politics. For me it serves best as a series of cautionary tales, linked in a grand narrative that is in itself a magnificent achievement."--Andrew J. Williams, H-Diplo

"The strength of this book is the author's Herculean power of synthesis...Herring recaptures a quarter-millennium of American foreign policy with fluidity and felicity...we have long been waiting for a single-volume history like this one, and "From Colony to Superpower" deserves a place on the bookshelf."--New York Times Book Review

"Its first achievement is its feat of inclusiveness, managed by making quick work of many interesting subplots of the United States' rich and complex relations with the world...The narrative power lies partly in identifying themes that gradually give a strong organizational cohesion to his story...It is revisionism of the best kind, quiet but insistent, reinforced by archival evidence and deftly drawn parallels."--Howard W. French, The New York Times

"The only volume in the series that spans the entirety of the American past, From Colony to Superpower could not be more timely, more colorful, or more compelling for Americans seeking to understand the causes and the consequences of the quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq. Herring is well equipped to provide that analysis."--The Chronicle of Higher Education

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The second part in the dramatic story of America's emergence as superpower - and of its uncertain future

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (February 20, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 768 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190212470
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190212476
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.2 x 1.7 x 6.1 inches
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George C. Herring is Alumni Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. His book in the Oxford History of the United States series, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 won the Robert Ferrell Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A leading authority on U.S. foreign relations, he is the former editor of Diplomatic History and a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, among other books. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cannot understand U.S. global position without this book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2018
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Herring captures, in true historical detail, the intricacies and dynamics of U.S. foreign policy and the implementation of that policy over the last century. Herring does not make judgement characterizations, insofar as labeling the United States as an imperial power or simply fighting for democracy; the reader is left to his/her own accord to make that designation. If you wish to understand the U.S. rise to the status as "superpower" in great detail, this is a must-read! Very readable, and the diction is not by any means too technical or dry. This can be used as a bibliographical source, or simply an interesting read. Either way, buy it. One cannot understand the position of the United States on the global scale without reading this book!
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John Kane
4.0 out of 5 stars It isbut rather an intelligent, purely descriptive enterprise
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2018
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The vIrtue of this book is its comprehensive coverage of more than a century of US foreign policy. Many themes arise mixed but no overarching theme is pursued. It isbut rather an intelligent, purely descriptive enterprise. Herring is an eminent historian and abreast of the literature on all periods and provides a generally balanced account, the bad with the good His writing style, however, is merely serviceable with a distinct lack of grace notes. It is, in short, a very useful book but do not expect it to rise to the level of literature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars How did we make our way to our current dysfunctional foreign policy.
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2017
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Second volume of Herring's 'From Colony to Superpower'. In depth discussion of American foreign policy in the 20th century. Strongly recommended for an interested reader. Massive work, sometimes excessively academic, which is to be expected in a comprehensive survey. I am particularly struck by the racism in foreign policy--particularly towards Latin America--in the first two decades of the century, including Woodrow Wilson's biases. While I have not gotten far into it, I feel that I will have a much better understanding of how America relates to the rest of the world in the current 21st century as well.

A brillient continuation of the multi-massive-volume Oxford History of the United States. Strongly recommended.
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Charles Hommel
5.0 out of 5 stars ... occurred and had an impact on our country both good and bad unlike the history textbooks most of us ...
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2018
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All the books in the Oxford History of the United States are exceptional from an historical standpoint in that they cover ALL aspects of what actually occurred and had an impact on our country both good and bad unlike the history textbooks most of us grew up with. Many of them have won Pulitzer Prizes and other awards.
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Jack Maguire
5.0 out of 5 stars It is in keeping with the excellent work of all volumes of the Oxford history of ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017
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It is in keeping with the excellent work of all volumes of the Oxford history of the US. Required reading for any student of history.
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4.0 out of 5 stars readable and comprehensive with some embarrassing factual errors
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2018
This a very readable, comprehensive and generally balanced review of US foreign policy since the 1890s. However the book, perhaps inevitably in such a broad review, includes some embarrasing factual erroes. For instance, regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict: Nasser closed the gulf of Akaba not the gulf of Sidra before the June 1967 war; Israel received Skyhawk jets only in December 1967 not before that war; Israel lost 196 troops in the first day of the October 1973 war not a thousand. I think the book has a relatively limited discussion of American foreign policy towards Europe. For instance, Herring mentions Britain's Thatcher and France's Mitterrand only once each of them in a rather casual way.
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Terry Tucker
3.0 out of 5 stars A Survey
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2019
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Although this book is packed with detail, it is so as a result of the authors extensive use of secondary sources. I was also very bored with the writing style by chapter 3. I struggled to finish the book.
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NomDePlume
3.0 out of 5 stars Just one new chapter?
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2019
The description provides zero information on the relationship between this title and Herring's excellent previous book, "From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776" (2008). I have that book, so I pulled it off the shelf for comparison. Chapters 1-13 of "The American Century and Beyond" are the same titles as chapters 8-20 of "From Colony to Superpower." There is exactly one new chapter here: "9/11 and the Post-American World." One chapter does not justify the purchase or the shelf space (at least for me). It does, however, justify a trip to the library, to read the new chapter.

"From Colony to Superpower" is superb, 5 stars. I look forward to reading the new material -- I'll head to the library as soon as I finish "The Republic For Which It Stands" by Richard White.
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