3rd Edition

History of American Foreign Policy, Volume 2 From 1895

By Jerald A. Combs Copyright 2008

    First Published in 2017. Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This is Volume II and is from 1895. The historiographical essays at the end of each chapter have been revised to reflect the most recent scholarship. The History of American Foreign Policy chronicles events and policies with emphasis on the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate; the domestic pressures on those policy-makers; and the ideologies, preferences, and personal idiosyncrasies of the leaders themselves.

    1. Europe, America, and World War I 2. The United States and the Peace of Versailles 3. U.S. Foreign Policy Between the World Wars 4. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Coming of World War II 5. The Diplomacy of World War II and the Seeds of the Cold War 6. Harry Truman and the Onset of the Cold War 7. The New Look of Dwight D. Eisenhower 8. John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Flexible Response 9. The Vietnam War 10. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: Manipulating the Balance of Power 11. Time Bombs in the Middle East 12. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and the Demise of Detente: 1976-1984 13. The End of the Cold War 14. American Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of the Cold War 15. George W. Bush, 9/11, and the War in Iraq

    Biography

    Jerald A. Combs (PhD, UCLA 1964) is professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University, where he retired after serving nine years as chair of the History Department and two years as dean of undergraduate studies. He is the author of The Jay T