Description: Examines the complex interactions between the US and new and developing nations from the end of WWII through the Cold War
Brief description: Bevan Sewell, assistant professor in American history at the University of Nottingham, is the author of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and US Economic Policy in Latin America and coeditor of Projecting American Foreign Policy: Power and Intervention.
Review Quotes:
Even after the United States became a global superpower, some regions of the world remained peripheral to American interests. What set these areas apart? And why did the U.S. eventually become drawn into their affairs? In this smart collection of original essays, an all-star lineup of historians answers these questions, and more, and uncovers the powerful dynamics that have shaped America's rise to globalism.
--Andrew Preston, Cambridge University