foreign economic relations

"[The author] reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the Soviet threat at the dawn of the Cold War"--Provided by publisher.

Examines how international pirate, John Avery, sparked multinational capitalism in the seventeenth century.

The Elephant and the Dragon is the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. With labor now unbound from geographic borders, we're seeing startling shifts in how--and where--nearly everything we buy is made. In a compelling mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, veteran journalist Robyn Meredith untangles the complex web of business and politics, as well as environmental and cultural issues that entwine India, China, and the West. She also outlines how Americans--business leaders, workers, politicians, even parents--can understand the vast changes coming and thrive in this new age.--From publisher description.

Provides access to a wide diversity of opinions about, Mexico, also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Selections by experts, policy makers, and concerned citizens include complete articles and speeches, long book excerpts, and occasional cartoons and boxed quotations.

Exlpores the rise of Xiaomi in China's smartphone market.

This book gives an in-depth discussion of European integration and the influence of Communism on Western Europe.

"Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary Period of 1763 to 1783 had concluded only one part, the first phase of their ordeal. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War halted overt combat but had achieved only partial political autonomy from Britain. By not guaranteeing American economic independence and agency, Britain continued to deny American sovereignty. Randall details the fifty years and persistent attempts by the British to control American trade waters, but he also shows how, despite the outrageous restrictions, the United States asserted the doctrine of neutral rights and developed the world's second largest merchant fleet as it absorbed the French Caribbean trade. American ships carrying trade increased five-fold between 1790 and 1800, its tonnage nearly doubling again between 1800 and 1812, ultimately making the United States the world's largest independent maritime power"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the history of smuggling in the United States, and its role in the country's birth, westward expansion, economic development, and increasing federal government policing powers.