The American age: United States foreign policy at home and abroad since 1750

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

Second struggle for independence and Union (1789-1815)

First, the last: John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine (1815-1828)

Amphibious expansion of a sixty-five-hundred-thousand-horsepower steam engine (1828-1850)

Climax of early U.S. foreign policy: Civil War (1850-1865)

Laying the foundations for "Superpowerdom" (1865-1896)

Turning point: McKinley years (1896-1900)

Search for opportunity: Rough riders and dollar diplomats (1901-1913)

Wilsonians, revolutions and war (1913-1917)

Victors without peace (1917-1920)

U.S. presidents and secretaries of state

General bibliography

Acknowledgments to the first edition

Photo credits

Index.