A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War-era diplomacy
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"Phillip E. Myers's Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly for the lack of any real chance of British intervention on the side of the Confederacy and dating the end-of-the-century Anglo-American rapprochement back about three decades. Based on extensive research in the United States and Great Britain, this major...
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War-era diplomacy
Click here to read a review from The British Scholar
A unique analysis that deepens our understanding of U.S.-East Asian relations
In the period between the Sino-Japanese War in the mid-1890s and the end of World War I, the United States, China, and Japan found themselves, in different ways, seeking to redefine their national identities. By examining the connections between culture and nationhood--the gendered nature of concepts like modernity, the role of women in the construction and projection of a nation's identity, and the relationship between national identity and power projection--author Carol C. Chin examines...
A unique analysis that deepens our understanding of U.S.-East Asian relations
A new study that sheds light on the history of a critical Cold War flashpoint
The fall of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago brought an end to the Cold War for most of the world. But the legacy of that era remains unresolved on the divided Korean peninsula, which still presents a clear danger for the United States and its allies. Two triangular alliances--one comprised of the United States, South Korea, and Japan, and the other of Russia, China, and North Korea--lie at the heart of the security challenge and all efforts to pursue a final peace treaty.
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A new study that sheds light on the history of a critical Cold War flashpoint
How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of Singapore
In the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes with the progressive retreat of Great Britain from its Southeast Asian colonial empire. The United States, under the Eisenhower administration, sought to fill the vacuum left by the British retreat and launched into a campaign to shape the emerging Singapore nation-state in accordance with its Cold War policies. Based on a wide array of Chinese- and English-language archival sources...
How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of Singapore
The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political conflict in Spain "An unusually original book that challenges established assumptions and reveals the complexity of American reactions to the Spanish Civil War."--Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison In 1938 the United States was embroiled in a vicious debate between supporters of the two sides of the Spanish Civil War, who sought either to lift or to retain the U.S. arms embargo on Spain. The embargo, which favored Gen. Francisco Franco's Nationalist regime over the ousted Republican government of the Loyalists,...
The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political conflict in Spain "An unusually original book that challenges established assumption...
A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem
Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. Explaining the conceptual framework within which policymakers understood illegal opium production and trafficking, Seeing Drugs examines the genesis of the war on drugs during the Nixon and Ford administrations when the United States developed the policies that set the parameters of subsequent American drug control abroad.
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A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem
Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war...