The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations [Hardcover]

This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective.Based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, and written from a post-Cold War perspective, this volume spans the origins of Soviet-American conflict in 1945 through the crises of 1991, including all of the major Cold War foreign policy issues.Based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, and written from a post-Cold War perspective, this volume spans the origins of Soviet-American conflict in 1945 through the crises of 1991, including all of the major Cold War foreign policy issues.This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of detente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analyzed and clearly explained.Acknowledgments; Prelude; Part I. At War's End: Visions of a New World Order; Part II. Origins of the Cold War; Part III. The Korean War and its Consequences; Part IV. New Leaders and New Arenas in the Cold War; Part V. Crisis Resolution; Part VI. America's Longest War; Part VII. The Rise and Fall of Detente; Part VIII. In God's Country; Conclusion: America and the World, 19451991; Bibliographic Essay; Index. Drawing upon recent scholarship and using new as well as traditional approaches, four distinguished historians provide...excellent summaries of the international history of the United States from its emergence as a nation to l³O