American Foreign Affairs: A Compact History

by Gordon Tullock

Overview

This book provides a compact history of the gradual development of the US into a great power. Most histories of US foreign policy and development concentrate either on economic growth or on relations with the major powers outside the continental United States. This book, however, emphasizes the longstanding conflict between the US and the American Indians and Mexico, and how the development of the United States as a great power depended primarily on its seizure of large areas of land from their previous inhabitants. Covering Christopher Columbus' famous voyage and US colonial policy up to World War II, the book explains (at times controversially) how the US became a large land area, which proved to be an indispensable tool in its becoming a great power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812835079
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/17/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

1 Purposes of Foreign Policy 1

2 Historical Background 7

3 The Balance of Power and The Revolution 19

4 The Revolutionary War 31

5 Early Policy, Looking East 39

6 1815 to 1890 to the East 51

7 West of the Appalachians, the Early Period 57

8 More on the West 69

9 European Empires 77

10 Since 1890, The Modern Period 81

11 Between the Wars (Part 1) 89

12 World War I 93

13 Between the Wars (Part 2) 105

14 World War II (Part 1) 111

15 The United States After 1890 115

16 World War II (Part 2) 121

Appendix on China 147

References 163

Index 165