Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The thesis allows for use of anecdote and quotation to exemplify the policies.

America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945 - 2000

Walter LaFeber

Mcgraw-Hill College

America, Russia, and the Cold War (America in Crisis)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

McGraw-Hill Companies

The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective

A superb treatment of the evolution of U.S.-Panama relations, Walter LaFeber's The Panama Canal was praised by The Nation as "a balanced, unemotional indictment of the history of the United States in Panama". History hailed it as "the best overall synthesis of a vital theme in American diplomatic history," and The Atlantic Monthly said there was "no better single source." Now in this new edition, LaFeber brings his study up to date with two new chapters that cover U.S.-Panama relations since 1978, including the attempt to oust Manuel Noriega, and Noriega's role in aiding the Nicaraguan Contras. Essential for anyone who wants a complete picture of the canal debate from Balboa to the present, this new edition of the classic work on the subject is an important contribution to the discussion of the Panama issue today.

Oxford University Press

Walter LaFeber brings a full range of historical tools to bear on American Diplomatic history--biographical sketches, a concise survey of world events that shaped U.S. policy, a use of American social and cultural history, and a full discussion of the rise of presidential power. Photos and maps.

American Age United States Foreign Polic

History

Americas

Norton*(ww Norton Co

This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century. Cornell University Press is proud to issue this thirty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new preface by the author."In this Beveridge Award-winning study, Walter LaFeber . . . probes beneath the apparently quiet surface of late nineteenth-century American diplomacy, undisturbed by major wars and undistinguished by important statements of policy. He finds those who shaped American diplomacy believed expanding foreign markets were the cure for recurring depressions. . . . In thoroughly documenting economic pressure on American foreign policy of the late nineteenth century, the author has illuminated a shadowy corner of the national experience. . . . The theory that America was thrust by events into a position of world power it never sought and was unprepared to discharge must now be re-examined. Also brought into question is the thesis that American policymakers have depended for direction on the uncertain compass of utopian idealism."-American Historical Review

The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (Cornell Paperbacks)

Business & Money

Economics

Cornell Univ Pr

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