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LaFeber, Walter Frederick was born on August 30, 1933 in Walkerton, Indiana, United States. Son of Ralph N. and Helen (Lidecker) Lafayette.
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Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text by a prominent historian focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The updated ninth edition covers the events of September 11, 2001, and analyzes the new world that began that day.
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(In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensi...)
In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensive history of American foreign relations from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.
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With Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, Walter LaFeber has written a biography, a social history, and a far-ranging economic critique. From basketball prodigy to international phenomenon to seductive commercial ideal, Michael Jordan is the supreme example of how American corporations have used technology in a brave, massively wired new world to sell their products in every corner of the globe. LaFeber's examination of Nike and its particular dominion over the global marketplace is often scathing, while his fascinating mini-biography of Michael Jordan and the commercial history of basketball reveal much about American society. For this new paperback edition, LaFeber has added a chapter on globalization in a changed world, after mass protests and since September 11. "Bold, riveting...Brilliantly illuminates how hyper-US capitalism has spread its financial wings around the globe."-Douglas Brinkley "LaFeber brings an impressive intellect to bear on his subject."-Barbara Rudolph, Chicago Tribune
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( In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehen...)
In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensive history of American foreign relations from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. His narrative account features several major themes: the connections between U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics; the impact of American economic development on foreign policy interests; popular culture, particularly film, as a filter for public opinion on American commitments abroad; the roles of public opinion, leadership, and bureaucracy in the formation of policy. In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every chapter in the book. In the early chapters, there is more attention to the origins of foreign policy institutions and practices, including precedents for the executive agreement, and new discussions of U.S. relations with Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The more recent chapters feature fresh insights of Potsdam, the origins of the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis--all based on new evidence drawn from Soviet archives. The new edition amply covers the momentous events that brought the Cold War to an end and thrust the United States into the uncetain position of the world's only superpower.
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( In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every...)
In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every chapter in the book. In the early chapters, there is more attention to the origins of foreign policy institutions and practices, including precedents for the executive agreement, and new discussions of U.S. relations with Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The more recent chapters feature fresh insights on Potsdam, the origins of the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis―all based on new evidence drawn from Soviet archives. The new edition amply covers the momentous events that brought the Cold War to an end and thrust the United States into the uncertain position of the world’s only superpower. In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensive history of American foreign relations from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. His narrative account features several major themes: the connections between U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics; the impact of American economic development on foreign policy interests; popular culture, particularly film, as a filter for public opinion on American commitments abroad; the roles of public opinion, leadership, and bureaucracy in the formation of policy.
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( In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehen...)
In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensive history of American foreign relations from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. His narrative account featured several major politics; the impact of American economic development on foreign policy interests; popular culture, particularly film, as a filter for public opinion on American commitments abroad; the roles of public opinion, leadership, and bureaucracy in the formation of policy. In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every chapter in the book. In the early chapters, there is more attention to the origins of foreign policy institutions and practices, including precedents for the executive agreement, and new discussions of U.S. relations with Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The more recent chapters feature fresh insights on Potsdam, the origins of the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis―all based on new evidence drawn from Soviet archives.The new edition amply covers the momentous events that brought the Cold War to an end and thrust the United States into the uncertain position of the world's only superpower.
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( Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa R...)
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are five small countries, and yet no other part of the world is more important to the US. This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of Central American dependency. This second edition is updated to include new material covering the Reagan and Bush years, and the Iran/Contra affair.
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This 357-page hardcover was published in 1984 by Norton. This volume appears to be unread and in like new condition in everyway, except for minor wear to dustcover edges and corners, and on top edge of spine. A very solid, nice conditioned volume.
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(Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Ca...)
Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. This revised second volume describes the causes and dynamics of United States foreign policy from 1865 to 1913, the era when the United States became one of the four great world powers and the world's greatest economic power. The dramatic expansion of global power during this period was set in motion by the strike-ridden, bloody, economic depression from 1873 to 1897 when American farms and factories began seeking overseas markets for their surplus goods, as well as by a series of foreign policy triumphs, as America extended its authority to Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, Central America, the Philippines, and China. Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt set foreign policy precedents by creating historic policies in which they used the post-1890 battleship fleet, a navy that quickly became one of the world's most powerful fleets. Ironically, as Americans searched for opportunity and stability abroad, they instead helped create revolutions in Central America, Panama, the Philippines, Mexico, China, and Russia. These outbreaks introduced the twentieth century as a century of revolutions with which the United States would have to deal as a top world power.
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Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on United States-Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It explores how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and presents a variety of other points of view on the conflict--Chinese, Latin American, European, and Vietnamese. The text includes both engaging anecdotes and quotes from primary sources to support key points and exemplify policies, and recent scholarship and materials from openings of the U.S., Soviet, and Chinese archives.
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Updated and revised, this edition presents expanded information on the foreign policy of the Jefferson period. A final chapter covers the events of 1989 and after, into the Clinton administration.
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(The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes t...)
The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes the period between the American Civil War and World War I (1865-1913) as the formative basis for twentieth-century American world power--"The American Century" as it has become known--and examines the "Imperial Presidency" that these roots produced. The extent of U.S. power was so great that it not only transformed American society, but reshaped other societies around the globe as well, by helping fuel--and in some cases directly causing--the great revolutions of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in Mexico, Russia, China, Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, Panama, and Central America. The book, therefore, not only examines American history, but the history of many other areas that were dramatically affected by U.S. power as they entered the twentieth century.
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Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It identifies major policy-makers and explores major crises in the post-1945 period. The author also looks at how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the USA and Soviet Union. Material new to this edition includes: a rewritten post-1989 final chapter; the rewriting of the events in the 1950s, the Lyndon Johnson presidency and the Reagan presidential years; and a stronger focus on Soviet/Russian developments.
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(This newly updated edition of Walter LaFeber's widely pra...)
This newly updated edition of Walter LaFeber's widely praised study of the evolution of U.S.-Panama relations contains two new chapters on the events that have occurred since the Panama Canal Treaty in 1978. This new edition offers particularly detailed examinations of the 1988 attempt to oust Manuel Noriega and Noriega's role in aiding the Nicaraguan Contras, as well as invaluable background information for understanding the 1989 crises. LaFeber argues that the interdependent, but turbulent, relationship between Panama and the United States continued into the 1980s with the U.S. using General Manuel Antonio Noriega to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. U.S. officials in the Reagan administration also subordinated widespread knowledge of Noriega's drug trafficking in order to keep Panama in line with the U.S. policy towards Nicaragua. But by 1986, the United States both knew and demanded too much of Noriega, and the relationship finally began to fragment. LaFeber's updated volume remains the essential source for anyone who wants a complete picture of U.S.-Panama relations from Balboa to the present.
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(Using published material from both public and private sou...)
Using published material from both public and private sources, this concise text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. This edition includes a new final chapter which considers the Bush administration's foreign policy throughout its first term, the events of the attempted coup in Moscow, and the end of Soviet communism and its effect on US foreign relations throughout the world. In addition, newly available materials have been used in rewriting the section on the 1962 missile crisis.
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(The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes t...)
The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes the period between the American Civil War and World War I (1865-1913) as the formative basis for twentieth-century American world power--"The American Century" as it has become known--and examines the "Imperial Presidency" that these roots produced. The extent of U.S. power was so great that it not only transformed American society, but reshaped other societies around the globe as well, by helping fuel--and in some cases directly causing--the great revolutions of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in Mexico, Russia, China, Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, Panama, and Central America. The book, therefore, not only examines American history, but the history of many other areas that were dramatically affected by U.S. power as they entered the twentieth century.
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(The third edition of this widely used text analyzes the m...)
The third edition of this widely used text analyzes the most important aspects of American foreign policy from World War II to the mid-1970's by focusing on the Soviet-American relationship.
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LaFeber, Walter Frederick was born on August 30, 1933 in Walkerton, Indiana, United States. Son of Ralph N. and Helen (Lidecker) Lafayette.
Bachelor, Hanover College, 1955; Master of Arts, Stanford, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1959.
Assistant professor of history, Cornell Univercity, 1959-1963; associate professor, Cornell Univercity, 1963-1967; professor, Cornell Univercity, 1967-1968; Noll professor of history, Cornell Univercity, since 1968; Weiss Presidential Tchg. fellow, Cornell Univercity, since 1994; Commonwealth lecturer, U. London, England., 1973; Callander lecturer, U. Aberdeen, 1987; Shaw lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, 1989; Landmark professor, American U., 1992; Jefferson lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. Member advising committee history division State Department, 1971-1975.
(The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes t...)
(The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes t...)
( This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walte...)
(Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Ca...)
(The third edition of this widely used text analyzes the m...)
(Using extensive materials from both published and private...)
(Using published material from both public and private sou...)
(Using extensive materials from both published and private...)
( Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa R...)
(In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensi...)
(With Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, Walter...)
( In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehen...)
( In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehen...)
(Using extensive materials from both published and private...)
(Updated and revised, this edition presents expanded infor...)
(Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, New and Exp...)
(This newly updated edition of Walter LaFeber's widely pra...)
( Lyndon Johnson made a life or death bet during his Pres...)
( In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every...)
(Political Science, International Affairs, History, Soviet...)
(This 357-page hardcover was published in 1984 by Norton. ...)
(scholarly book; title self-explanatory)
(Very gently read. Looks like it did when it first came out.)
Member of Society Historians of America Foreign Relations (president 1999—2000), American Academy Arts and Sciences, The History Society, American History Association (Albert Beveridge prize 1962), Organization American Historians (Hawley prize 1998).
Married Sandra Gould, September 11, 1955. Children: Scott Nichols, Suzanne Margaret Kahl.