Using basketball and Michael Jordan as prime examples, historian LaFeber investigates the issue of whether corporations like Nike use sports and sports personalities as cultural coercion in the global marketplace. The author warns of a negative backlash against America. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999.
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are five small countries, and yet no other part of the world is more important to the US. This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and ...
Updated and revised, this edition presents expanded information on the foreign policy of the Jefferson period. A final chapter covers the events of 1989 and after, into the Clinton administration.
This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century. Cornell University Press is proud to issue this thirty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new preface by the author.
Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on United States-Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It explores how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and presents a variety of other points of view on the conflict - ...
This collection of essays and documents, written and compiled by four distinguished historians, is an essential source book for anyone seeking to understand the causes, character, and consequences of American involvement in Vietnam.
In "The Deadly Bet", distinguished historian Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players including Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Nguyen ...
This text has been revised and updated with additional chapters on US-Panama relations since the treaty of 1978, including the attempt to oust Noriega, and Noriega's support for the Nicaraguan Contras.
Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The thesis allows for use of anecdote and quotation to exemplify the policies.
From the middle of the 19th century the Americans and Japanese have been economic and cultural rivals. This book tells the story behind the disagreements, tensions and skirmishes between these two economic power.
Revised and updated, this classic text presents a vivid rendering of America from World War II into the twenty-first century, stressing economic and urban growth, social and political change, civil rights and liberties, and the growth of the United States into a global superpower.Special sections cover gender, diversity, culture, science and ...
Revised and updated, this classic text presents a vivid rendering of America from World War II into the twenty-first century, stressing economic and urban growth, social and political change, civil rights and liberties, and the growth of the United States into a global superpower.Special sections cover gender, diversity, culture, science and ...
A history of political relations between the United States and Japan from its opening to Commodore Perry in 1853 to the present day. LaFerber, a professor of history at Cornell University, maintains that, despite profound cultural differences that have led to repeated and sometimes formidable conflicts, the economic ties that bind the two nations ...
Between the American Civil War and the outbreak of world War I, global history was transformed by two events: the United States's rise to the status of a great world power (indeed, the world's greatest economic power) and the eruption of nineteenth- and twentieth-century revolutions in Mexico, China, Russia, Cuba, the Philippines, Hawaii, Panama, ...
Using published material from both public and private sources, this concise text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. This edition includes a new final chapter which considers the Bush administration's foreign policy throughout its first term, the events of the attempted coup in Moscow, and the end ...
The roots of American globalization can be seen in the country's participation in the War of 1898. This text examines US growth from its early nationhood to its first major military conflict on the world stage, also known as the Spanish-American War.
The steep hills and dramatic gorges of Ithaca were the setting for a revolution in American education when, in the 1860s, a self-made man sought "to do the most good . . . to the poor and to posterity." Ezra Cornell's philanthropy, enhanced with funds from the Morrill Land Grant Act and enlarged by the vision of educator Andrew Dickson White, ...
Standing as a tribute to Fred Harrington of Wisconsin-Madison University, this book argues that in the last 100 years, United States presidents have received foreign policy advice from government servants who define world views for them, not only advising but often taking action to implement them.
"The American Century" is a succinct, well-written history of the United States in the modern (post-1890's) era. It is valuable for either the second half of U.S. survey courses or for 20th Century U.S. courses for upper class students. The text places special emphasis on economic and urban growth, social and political change, civil rights and ...
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