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From Colony To Superpower Av George C. (alumni Professor Of History Emeritus Alumni Professor Of History Emeritus University Of Kentucky) Herring

A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this prize-winning and critically acclaimed history 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. George C. Herring tells a story of stunning successes and sometimes tragic failures, captured in a fast-paced narrative that illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation, and highlights its ongoing impact on the lives of ordinary citizens. He shows how policymakers defined American interests broadly to include territorial expansion, access to growing markets, and the spread of an "American way" of life. And Herring does all this in a story rich in human drama and filled with epic events. Statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin and Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman and Dean Acheson played key roles in America''s rise to

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The American Century And Beyond Av George C. (alumni Professor Of History Emeritus Alumni Professor Of History Emeritus University Of Kentucky) Herrin

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,...

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British Slaves And Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750 Av Bernard (emeritus Professor Of History Emeritus Professor Of History University Of Warwick) Capp

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, an issue of intense contemporary concern but almost wholly overlooked in modern histories...

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Elizabeth Wiskemann Av Geoffrey (emeritus Professor Of History Emeritus Professor Of History Purchase College State University Of New York) Field

This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a journalist...

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European Physico-theology (1650-c.1760) In Context Av Kaspar (professor Emeritus Of History Professor Emeritus Of History University Of Basel) Von Gre

Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward the recognition of God as Creator and to demonstrate the compatibility of the biblical record with the new science. It was a crucial, albeit often underestimated element in the intellectual...

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From Colony To Superpower Av George C. (alumni Professor Of History Emeritus Alumni Professor Of History Emeritus University Of Kentucky) Herring

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