TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perkins,Bradford
TI  - The Cambridge history of American foreign relations
SN  - 0521382092
AV  - E183.7 .C36 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - BIBINDX; v. 1. The creation of a republican empire, 1776-1865 / Bradford Perkins -- v. 2. The American search for opportunity, 1865-1913 / Walter LaFeber -- v. 3. The globalizing of America, 1913-1945 / Akira Iriye -- v. 4. America in the age of Soviet power, 1945-1991 / Warren I. Cohen
N2  - 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
ER  -