{"product_id":"years-of-peril-and-ambition-u-s-foreign-relations-1776-1921","title":"Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921","description":"Praised in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e for its Herculean power of synthesis, George C. Herring's 2008 \u003cem\u003eFrom Colony to Superpower \u003c\/em\u003ehas won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. \u003cem\u003eYears of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921\u003c\/em\u003e is the first volume of a new split paperback\u003cbr\u003eedition of that masterwork, making this award-winning title accessible to those with a particular interest in the first half of the United States' history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis first volume of Herring's international narrative charts the rise of the United States from a loose grouping of British colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast of North America into an emerging world power at the end of World War I. It tells an epic story of restless settlers pushing against\u003cbr\u003eweak restraints; of explorers, sea captains, adventurers, merchants, and missionaries carrying American ways to new lands. It analyzes countless crises, some resulting in war and others resolved peacefully. Above all, it is the tale of United States' expansion, commercial and political, across the\u003cbr\u003eNorth American continent, into the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean regions, and, economically, worldwide. Herring brings this first segment of America's dramatic emergence as a superpower to a close with the United States' post-World War I rise to the status of the world's most powerful nation, poised\u003cbr\u003e-- however unsteadily --for global engagement in what would be called the American Century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eYears of Peril and Ambition\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the ongoing impact of the nation's international affairs on the household names of U.S. history but also on ordinary citizens. Featuring a grand cast of characters, encompassing statesmen and presidents, diplomats and foreigners, and rogues and rascals alike, \u003cbr\u003ethis fast-paced account illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-9265982\"\u003eGeorge C. Herring\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190212469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190212462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036000\"\u003eUnited States | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL011010\"\u003eInternational Relations | Diplomacy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL010000\"\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Theory | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge C. Herring\u003c\/strong\u003e is Alumni Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. A leading authority on U.S. foreign relations, he is the former editor of \u003cem\u003eDiplomatic History\u003c\/em\u003e and a past president of the \u003cem\u003eSociety for Historians of American Foreign Relations\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAmerica's\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eLongest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War\u003c\/em\u003e, among other books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42680503927021,"sku":"9780190212469","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_bc495684-96d7-46e4-9a31-10acd1f3a102.jpg?v=1649695162","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/years-of-peril-and-ambition-u-s-foreign-relations-1776-1921","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}