Paths to Power

Paths to Power includes essays on US foreign relations though the outbreak of World War II.

Includes essays on US foreign relations from the founding of the nation to the outbreak of World War II. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the current literature, with helpful suggestions for further research. Paths to Power is a useful primer for students and scholars of American foreign relations.Paths to Power includes essays on US foreign relations from the founding of the nation though the outbreak of World War II. Essays by leading historians review the literature on American diplomacy in the early Republic and in the age of Manifest Destiny, on American imperialism in the late nineteenth century and in the age of Roosevelt and Taft, on war and peace in the Wilsonian era, on foreign policy in the Republican ascendancy of the 1920s, and on the origins of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the current literature, helpful suggestions for further research, and a useful primer for students and scholars of American foreign relations.