George C. (Alumni Professor of History Emeritus, Alumni Professor of History Emeritus, University of Kentucky) Herring
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. A sweeping account of United...
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-wi...
George C. (Alumni Professor of History Emeritus, Alumni Professor of History Emeritus, University of Kentucky) Herring
In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States seemed poised to achieve a position of world power beyond what even Washington could have imagined. In The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014, the second volume of a new split paperback edition of the award-winning From Colony to Superpower, George C. Herring recounts the rise of the...
In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a G...