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"A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492. We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus "discovered" America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking...

This study looks closely at the attempts to resolve the dilemmas now confronting American policy-makers and the need for the US to balance national interests against global responsibilities as the world's only superpower.

"The events 9/11 brought the subject of international terrorism to the top of the global security agenda. This book focuses on the way that the transatlantic allies have sought to combat international terrorism. This text will greatly interest students and scholars of international relations, international security, and transatlantic relations."--Jacket.

The problem of internecine conflict in Europe dominated the thoughts of U.S. statesmen during the four decades after 1914. This study in the varieties of modern American experience of Europe traces the development of three distinct personal answers to the question of what to do with Europe: Roosevelt's partial internationalism, aiming at the retirement of Europe from world politics while avoiding American entanglement; Kennan's partial isolationism,...

"Why should the United States cling to military alliances established during the cold war when the circumstances are now fundamentally different? In The End of Alliances Rajan Menon makes the bold claim that our alliances in Europe and Asia have become irrelevant to the challenges the United States faces today and are slowly dissolving as a result. The End of Alliances predicts that the coming change in American strategy will force our traditional...

Beginning with an overview of the system of international trade and payments since the war, it includes country studies of all the major industrialised nations and addresses key themes from a comparative perspective.

Most people would like to see farm animals leading happy, contented lives but farmers have to make a living in a changing and competitive world. Is it possible to improve the way we keep animals and not put farmers out of business? Does it have to be a choice between ethics and economics? Between animals and humans? This book puts forward the case that we can, if we want to, have it all viable farms, healthy safe food, and an improved environment,...

Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots?ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...

What will Russia be like in the year 2010? What impact will the future of Russia have on the West? And what could we do now to help shape a better future? In this brilliant and illuminating book, Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize, and Thane Gustafson, leading expert on Russian politics and economics, present four "histories" of the future for Russia and offer a vision of "capitalism Russian style." The collapse of the Soviet...