I am especially grateful to Gary R. Hess , Melvyn P. Leffler , and Robert H. Zieger , each of whom read the entire manuscript and offered valuable suggestions for its improvement . I thank George C. Herring and David Anderson , among ...
The most complete picture to date of how U.S. strategies of containment and empire-building spiraled out of control in Southeast Asia, investigating also how the demoralizing experience of Vietnam radically undermined U.S. enthusiasm for ...
This volume moves beyond the assumption that European Imperialism was met with cultural ignorance and conservative Sino-centrism by China in the late 19th and early 20th century.
For more than seven centuries most of the Near East was part of the Roman empire. Yet no work exists which explores the means by which an ancient power originating...
The Limits of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism in Modern China