02038cam a2200301 a 4500 17216755 20151025150058.0 120319t2008 enkbo frb f001 0 eng d 2012371552 9780199765539 DLC eng DLC DLC EG-ScBUE n-us--- 327.73 HER 22 Herring, George C., 1936- 38566 From colony to superpower : U. S. foreign relations since 1776 / George C. Herring. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c.2008. xvi, 1035 p. : maps, photographs ; 24 cm. The Oxford history of the United States Reprint. Previously published in hardback by Oxford University Press in 2008. Index : p. 997-1035. Bibliography : p. [965]-995. Historian Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's rise from thirteen disparate colonies along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. He documents America's interaction with other peoples and nations, 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 how much America's expansion as a nation also owes to the adventurers and explorers, the merchants and captains of industry, the missionaries and diplomats, who discovered or charted new lands, developed new avenues of commerce, and established and defended the nation's interests in foreign lands. BUEsh United States Foreign relations. BUEsh BUSBOL October2015 Reading book 34232 ddc 327.73 HER 20973 20945 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2015-10-25 Purchase 1 5 327.73 HER 000031129 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2015-11-02 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2015-10-25 Purchase 3 17 327.73 HER 000031128 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2018-09-23 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2015-10-25 Purchase 3 327.73 HER 000031127 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2019-08-08 BB