Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. This entirely new first volume narrates the British North American colonists' preexisting desire for expansion, security, and prosperity, and argues that these desires are both the essence of American foreign relations and the root cause for the creation of the United States. They required the colonists to unite politically, as individual colonies could not dominate North America by themselves....

This book explores the conditions of international relations from the end of WWII to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

This third volume of the updated edition describes how the United States became a global power during the period from 1913 to 1945.

This second volume of the updated edition describes the dynamics of United States foreign policy from 1865 to 1913.

This new first volume proposes that the British North American colonists' desire for expansion, security and prosperity is the essence of American foreign relations.