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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
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Margaret MacMillan · 761 pages
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a go
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer · 1,264 pages
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Paul Kennedy · 677 pages
El eminente historiador Paul Kennedy analiza y describe el auge y la caída de las grandes potencias a lo largo de los últimos cinco siglos. La nación proyecta su poder militar según sus recursos económicos, pero el alto coste de mantener la supremacía militar la precipita a la decadencia. las grandes potencias en crisis reaccionan gastando más en defensa y se debilitan desviando recursos productiv
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present
Michael B. Oren · 778 pages
From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines--from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli peace--the United States has been dramatically involved in the Middle East. For well over two centuries, American statesmen, merchants, and missionaries, both men a
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger · 912 pages
In this controversial and monumental book - arguably his most important - Henry Kissinger illuminates just what diplomacy is. Moving from a sweeping overview of his own interpretation of history to personal accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Kissinger describes the ways in which the art of diplomacy and the balance of power have created the world we live in, and shows how Americans,
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East
David Fromkin · 635 pages
Traces Great Britain's influence on Middle East politics since World War I, and describes Britain's changing interests in the region.
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Amanda Foreman · 958 pages
Presents a history of the role of British citizens in the American Civil War that offers insight into the interdependencies of both nations and how the Union worked to block diplomatic relations between England and the Confederacy.
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Lawrence Wright · 396 pages
A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day. With his hallmark insight into the forces at play in the Middle East and his acclaimed journalistic skill, Lawrence Wright takes us thr
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present
Brendan Simms · 720 pages
Overview: If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize this pivotal area or at least prevent it
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938
Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas Brinkley · 420 pages
Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this eighth revised edition of "Rise to Globalism" now in paperback offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present. Ambrose also wrote bestsellers "Undaunted Courage" and "D-Day."
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson · 478 pages
The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
Walter Russell Mead · 400 pages
The Gathering Storm
Winston S. Churchill · 737 pages
One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental *The Second World War* is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride an
The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
James D. Bradley · 432 pages
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis · 458 pages
When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George
The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East
Andrew Scott Cooper · 530 pages
This is an account of an era we thought we knew: how the US decision in the mid-1970s to choose Saudi Arabia as the dominant oil power in the Mideast ultimately led to the Islamic revolution in Iran, and how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. The author draws on newly declassified documents and interviews with some key figures of the time to show how Nixon, Ford, Kissing
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
Robert Dallek · 752 pages
With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F. Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time. Now, in this epic joint biography, he offers a provocative, groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose unlikely partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history.More than thirty years af
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Stephen Kinzer · 390 pages
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
David Crist · 638 pages
John Adams
David McCullough · 751 pages
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
John J. Mearsheimer · 561 pages
Explaining his theory of "offensive realism," the University of Chicago professor of political science discusses the methods used by states to ensure their survival through military strength and regional dominance.
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
Serhii Plokhy · 489 pages
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Greg Grandin · 292 pages
"This completely revised edition includes new information on the US invasion of Panama, US interventions in Cuba, Guatemala, and Chile, Plan Colombia and the War on Drugs, the Obama administration’s involvement in the 2009 coup in Honduras, and the current crisis at the US-Mexico border, caused by decades of misguided Washington policies. Most provocatively, Grandin argues that the origins of many