The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 3, The Globalizing of America, 1913–1945

This third volume of the updated edition describes how the United States became a global power during the period from 1913 to 1945.

Akira Iriye (Author)

9781107536197, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 April 2015

270 pages
22.9 x 15 x 1.7 cm, 0.42 kg

'Akira Iriye's volume, now updated with recent scholarship, continues to represent the best of historical interpretation and writing on its period. Scholars and students will continue to benefit from the provocative insights and graceful style of America's most distinguished international historian.' Emily S. Rosenberg, editor of A World Connecting, 1870–1945

Since their first publication, the four volumes of The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. This third volume of the updated edition describes how the United States became a global power - economically, culturally and militarily - during the period from 1913 to 1945, from the inception of Woodrow Wilson's presidency to the end of the Second World War. The author also discusses global transformations, from the period of the First World War through the 1920s when efforts were made to restore the world economy and to establish a new international order, followed by the disastrous years of depression and war during the 1930s, to the end of the Second World War. Throughout the book, themes of Americanisation of the world and the transformation of the United States provide the background for understanding the emergence of a trans-national world in the second half of the twentieth century.

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.

Subject Areas: Diplomacy [JPSD], International relations [JPS], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], History of the Americas [HBJK], History [HB]