{"product_id":"years-of-peril-and-ambition-u-s-foreign-relations-1776-1921-paperback","title":"Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge C. Herring\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraised 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 edition of that masterwork, making this award-winning title accessible to those with a particular interest in the first half of the United States' history. \u003c\/p\u003e\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 weak 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 North 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 -- 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, this fast-paced account illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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 Longest 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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 472\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254936428646,"sku":"9780190212469","price":30.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/SWhrWEZNWC9PSXNMa3Q2dkU2QlBUdz09.webp?v=1773629315","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/years-of-peril-and-ambition-u-s-foreign-relations-1776-1921-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}