Table of Contents
Preface xi
1 The Diplomacy of the Revolution 1
2 The New Republic in a World at War 15
3 The War of 1812: Reestablishing American Independence 29
4 The Monroe Doctrine and Latin American Independence 45
5 Manifest Destiny Triumphant: Oregon, Texas, and California 57
6 A House Divided: Diplomacy during the Civil War 75
7 Territorial and Commercial Expansionism: Alaska, the Caribbean, and the Far East 87
8 War with Spain and the New Manifest Destiny 107
9 The United States Adjusts to Its New Status 125
10 Woodrow Wilson and a World at War 145
11 The Slow Death of Versailles 165
12 World War U: The Grand Alliance 185
13 A New Global Struggle: Founding of the UN to the Cold War 211
14 Crises, Conflicts, and Coexistence 237
15 The United States and Southeast Asia: Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam 271
16 Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev, and the End of the Cold "War 295
17 The United States and the Middle East: Israel, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq 321
18 Twenty-First-Century Challenges 343
Notes 365
Selected Bibliography 407
Index 419
