America in the World by Jeffrey A. Engel (Hardback)

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9780691247441
Published:
17 Oct 2023
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
480 pages
Dimensions:
234.95x155.57x33mm
Weight:
0.816kgs
A wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations - now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to today. How should America wield its power beyond its borders? Should it follow grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it work in concert with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? 'America in the World' captures the voices and viewpoints of some of the most provocative, eloquent, and influential people who participated in these and other momentous debates.

A wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations-now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to today

How should America wield its power beyond its borders? Should it follow grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it work in concert with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? America in the World captures the voices and viewpoints of some of the most provocative, eloquent, and influential people who participated in these and other momentous debates. Now fully revised and updated, this anthology brings together primary texts spanning a century and a half of U.S. foreign relations, illuminating how Americans have been arguing about the nation's role in the world since its emergence as a world power in the late nineteenth century.

Features more than 250 primary-source documents, reflecting an extraordinary range of viewsIncludes two new chapters on the Trump years and the return of great power rivalries under BidenSweeps broadly from the Gilded Age to emerging global challenges such as COVID-19Shares the perspectives of presidents, secretaries of state, and generals as well as those of poets, songwriters, clergy, newspaper columnists, and novelistsAlso includes non-American perspectives on U.S. power

About the Author: Jeffrey A. Engel is founding director of the Center for Presidential History and professor of history at Southern Methodist University. Mark Atwood Lawrence is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. Andrew Preston is professor of American history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Clare College.

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