American Studies: Reference

This single-volume reference provides information on the events, ideas, organizations, agreements and people who have shaped American foreign involvement since the nation's beginning.

General category coverage includes concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control, with specific articles on topics ranging from anti-imperialism to environmental diplomacy.

Concise and comprehensive A-to-Z reference on the period from World War II to the demise of the Soviet Union.

A comprehensive examines the political, economic, military, and cultural interactions of the federal government and the American people with nations and peoples abroad.

US relations with the Middle East consisted largely of sending evangelists and getting oil. In the remainder of that century to the present, however, the relationship has obviously become increasingly complex both politically and economically, and even those who have watched events closely may have trouble remembering exactly what the h

This comprehensive work dramatizes, through memoirs and diaries of the major players as well as key public documents, eight major crises: eight major crises: The Origins of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49, the Korean War, the Berlin Crises of 1958 and 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-80, and the 1991 Persian Gulf War with Iraq.