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A wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations-now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to today
How should America wield its power beyond its borders? Should it follow grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it work in concert with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? America in the World captures the voices and viewpoints of some of the most provocative, eloquent, and influential people who participated in these and other momentous debates. Now fully revised and updated, this anthology brings together primary texts spanning a century and a half of U.S. foreign relations, illuminating how Americans have been arguing about the nation's role in the world since its emergence as a world power in the late nineteenth century.
• Features more than 250 primary-source documents, reflecting an extraordinary range of views
• Includes two new chapters on the Trump years and the return of great power rivalries under Biden
• Sweeps broadly from the Gilded Age to emerging global challenges such as COVID-19
• Shares the perspectives of presidents, secretaries of state, and generals as well as those of poets, songwriters, clergy, newspaper columnists, and novelists
• Also includes non-American perspectives on U.S. power Jeffrey A. Engel is founding director of the Center for Presidential History and professor of history at Southern Methodist University. Mark Atwood Lawrence is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. Andrew Preston is professor of American history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Clare College. "The documents in this volume capture the myriad questions and concerns that drove cultural producers, policymakers, and everyday people as they defined U.S. interests, security, and purpose in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Edited by three leading scholars in the field, the book is lucid in framing and capacious in scope-an invaluable resource for teaching U.S. and international history."-Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University
"This well-balanced, multivocal, and significantly expanded collection of documents offers historical depth and vital context for the United States' role in the world from the late 1800s to our current global crises."-Petra Goedde, Temple University
"This rich and diverse collection of primary sources has been a hit in my classes, sparking lively debate, thoughtful questions, and deep reflection on the place of the United States in the modern world. Newly updated to reflect recent trends, debates, and turning points, this anthology is an invaluable resource for showing students the complex and contested history of U.S. international relations."-Julia F. Irwin, author of Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century
"This outstanding documentary collection is an ideal text for any course on American foreign relations. The inclusion of numerous voices from outside the United States and from nonstate actors within the United States proves an especially noteworthy, and distinctive, feature."-Robert J. McMahon, Ohio State University
"Three historians known for the rigor and originality of their scholarship have combined to produce a most welcome teaching tool. Tracing the emergence of the United States as a global power, Engel, Lawrence, and Preston have deftly selected documents that capture non-American as well as American voices and reveal the complexity of the U.S. role in the world by highlighting themes that compete with as often as they complement each other. This collection raises questions resistant to easy answers. That's the mark of a valuable reader."-Richard H. Immerman, author of Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
"An extraordinary work. It is perfect for U.S. fo
How should America wield its power beyond its borders? Should it follow grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it work in concert with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? America in the World captures the voices and viewpoints of some of the most provocative, eloquent, and influential people who participated in these and other momentous debates. Now fully revised and updated, this anthology brings together primary texts spanning a century and a half of U.S. foreign relations, illuminating how Americans have been arguing about the nation's role in the world since its emergence as a world power in the late nineteenth century.
• Features more than 250 primary-source documents, reflecting an extraordinary range of views
• Includes two new chapters on the Trump years and the return of great power rivalries under Biden
• Sweeps broadly from the Gilded Age to emerging global challenges such as COVID-19
• Shares the perspectives of presidents, secretaries of state, and generals as well as those of poets, songwriters, clergy, newspaper columnists, and novelists
• Also includes non-American perspectives on U.S. power Jeffrey A. Engel is founding director of the Center for Presidential History and professor of history at Southern Methodist University. Mark Atwood Lawrence is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. Andrew Preston is professor of American history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Clare College. "The documents in this volume capture the myriad questions and concerns that drove cultural producers, policymakers, and everyday people as they defined U.S. interests, security, and purpose in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Edited by three leading scholars in the field, the book is lucid in framing and capacious in scope-an invaluable resource for teaching U.S. and international history."-Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University
"This well-balanced, multivocal, and significantly expanded collection of documents offers historical depth and vital context for the United States' role in the world from the late 1800s to our current global crises."-Petra Goedde, Temple University
"This rich and diverse collection of primary sources has been a hit in my classes, sparking lively debate, thoughtful questions, and deep reflection on the place of the United States in the modern world. Newly updated to reflect recent trends, debates, and turning points, this anthology is an invaluable resource for showing students the complex and contested history of U.S. international relations."-Julia F. Irwin, author of Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century
"This outstanding documentary collection is an ideal text for any course on American foreign relations. The inclusion of numerous voices from outside the United States and from nonstate actors within the United States proves an especially noteworthy, and distinctive, feature."-Robert J. McMahon, Ohio State University
"Three historians known for the rigor and originality of their scholarship have combined to produce a most welcome teaching tool. Tracing the emergence of the United States as a global power, Engel, Lawrence, and Preston have deftly selected documents that capture non-American as well as American voices and reveal the complexity of the U.S. role in the world by highlighting themes that compete with as often as they complement each other. This collection raises questions resistant to easy answers. That's the mark of a valuable reader."-Richard H. Immerman, author of Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
"An extraordinary work. It is perfect for U.S. fo