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Book SynopsisIn this updated edition of Crucible of Power, Howard Jones draws on his remarkable breadth as a historian of U.S. foreign relations to produce a distinguished survey of America''s growth from an emerging power in the 1890s to its present day position of global preeminence. Comprehensive, tempered, and highly accessible, Jones demonstrates the complexities facing U.S. policy makers and the limitations on their actions. The balanced and thoughtful approach to controversial issues and situations makes this book exceptional for classroom use. This new edition includes a number of revisions and additions aimed at making the volume more attractive to students, teachers, and general readers. A new final chapter brings the story of America''s foreign relations as close to the present as possible by focusing on President George W. Bush and his dealing with 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Global War on Terrorism. Among other changes, new materials on the Bay of Pigs invasion reve
Table of ContentsChapter 1: U.S. Imperialism and the New Manifest Destiny, 1897–1900 Chapter 2: Theodore Roosevelt and the Search for World Order, 1900–1913 Chapter 3: Woodrow Wilson and Missionary Diplomacy: Prologue to U.S. Entry into World War I, 1913–1917 Chapter 4: World War I and the League of Nations, 1917–1921 Chapter 5: The Independent Internationalism of the United States, 1921–1933 Chapter 6: The Coming of World War II, 1933–1939 Chapter 7: From Europe to Pearl Harbor, 1939–1941 Chapter 8: Wartime Diplomacy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1945 Chapter 9: Cold War and Containment in Europe and the Near East, 1945–1950 Chapter 10: Cold War and Containment in East Asia, 1950–1953 Chapter 11: Containment Continued: The Eisenhower Years, 1953–1961 Chapter 12: Containment at the Brink: Kennedy and Cuba, 1961–1963 Chapter 13: Containment in Collapse: Johnson and Vietnam, 1963–1969 Chapter 14: Vietnamization through Détente: A New Containment, 1969–1977 Chapter 15: The New World Order: Jimmy Carter and the Diplomacy of Human Rights, 1977–1981 Chapter 16: Cold War II: Reagan and the Revival of Containment, 1981–1989 Chapter 17: The End of the Cold War and Regional Conflicts, 1989–2001 Chapter 18: President George W. Bush and Missionary Diplomacy: 9/11, the Pre-Emptive War with Iraq, and the Global War on Terrorism, 2001–
