LaFeber, Walter

A study of American foreign policy during the last half of the nineteenth century, examining the economic forces which resulted in commercial and landed expansion, and discussing the link between that era and the maturation of the United States into a world power.

A study of America's involvement in the Cold War, tracing the course of the conflict as it moved from periods of crisis to relative stability, and discussing events that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.

Considers foreign relations and America's place in the world and how we got there.

A history of American foreign relations from the mid- eighteenth century to the present. Covers the momentous events that ended the Cold War and thrust the United States into the uncertain position of the world's only superpower.