Crucible of Power

Howard Jones is research professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama. A recipient of both the John F. Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award for teaching and research and the Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award, he teaches courses in American foreign relations and the U.S.-Vietnam War.

• Chapter 1: U.S. Imperialism and the New Manifest Destiny, 1897–1900Chapter 2: Theodore Roosevelt and the Search for World Order, 1900–1913Chapter 3: Woodrow Wilson and Missionary Diplomacy: Prologue to U.S. Entry into World War I, 1913–1917Chapter 4: World War I and the League of Nations, 1917–1921Chapter 5: The Independent Internationalism of the United States, 1921–1933Chapter 6: The Coming of World War II, 1933–1939Chapter 7: From Europe to Pearl Harbor, 1939–1941Chapter 8: Wartime Diplomacy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1945Chapter 9: Cold War and Containment in Europe and the Near East, 1945–1950Chapter 10: Cold War and Containment in East Asia, 1950–1953Chapter 11: Containment Continued: The Eisenhower Years, 1953–1961Chapter 12: Containment at the Brink: Kennedy and Cuba, 1961–1963Chapter 13: Containment in Collapse: Johnson and Vietnam, 1963–1969Chapter 14: Vietnamization through Détente: A New Containment, 1969–1977Chapter 15: The New World Order: Jimmy Carter and the Diplomacy of Human Rights, 1977–1981Chapter 16: Cold War II: Reagan and the Revival of Containment, 1981–1989Chapter 17: The End of the Cold War and Regional Conflicts, 1989–2001Chapter 18: President George W. Bush and Missionary Diplomacy: 9/11, the Pre-Emptive War with Iraq, and the Global War on Terrorism, 2001–

In a volume characteristic of his broad-ranging and important scholarship on U.S. foreign relations, Professor Jones has written a comprehensive, tempered, and highly accessible narrative account of the nation's twentieth-century international involvements.