Description
An overview and analysis of US foreign policy from independence in 1776 to the country's entry into World War One in 1917.
About the Author
Piero Gleijeses is Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013), which won the AHA Friedrich Katz Prize, and Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 (2002), which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Reviews
Drawing on international research in multiple languages, Piero Gleijeses brilliantly illuminates the rise of the United States to global power in a contest of rival empires. With clear purpose and lucid writing, America's Road to Empire ranges from the American's initial anti-colonial struggle for independence to the later conquest of distant dominions. Combining aggression, fear, and self-righteousness, American leaders pursued the fantasy of perfect security through expansion across a continent and then an ocean. * Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions (Norton), USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350028685
Author Piero Gleijeses
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 614g