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The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and n... Read More about Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World

Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human rights revolution grew rapidl... Read More about The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change Ov)

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 third volume describes how the United States became a global power - economically, cultura... Read More about The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume 3

This collection of speeches delivered in 1987 presents the widely diverging opinions of four influential men: an eminent politician, a professional soldier, a government consultant, and a distinguished scholar. The first contributor, Senator George S. McGovern, ran as the Democratic candidate for pr... Read More about Vietnam: Four American Perspectives

Together these essays tell the story of how two highly self-conscious cultures, with long and proud traditions of their own, have defined themselves both with respect to one another and under the influence of the West. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest pri... Read More about The Chinese and the Japanese: Essays in Political and Cultural Interactions (Princeton Legacy Library #717)

/I>The Great Powers of East Asia: 1953-1960 are written by some of the world's leading scholars. They contain new information, fresh insights, and useful analyses. The first series of essays focuses on the evolution of American policy. American historians examine the workings of the the Departmen... Read More about The Great Powers in East Asia: 1953-1960 (U.S. and Pacific Asia: Studies in Social)