America and the world : a diplomatic history

America and the world A diplomatic history

DVD - 2008

This course of 24 lectures explores the United States' shift from 13 weak and sparsely settled colonies to its current position of unprecedented global power and influence.

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Subjects
United States > History.
United States > Foreign relations > History.
United States > Foreign relations.
Published
[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company [2008]
Language
English
Other Authors
Mark A. Stoler (-)
Edition
[PDF workbook version]
Item Description
"The Great courses, Topic: Better Living ; Subtopic: Personal Development"--Cover.
"Course number 8598"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format.
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.)
Format
DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
ISBN
9781501940101
  • Disc 1. Lecture 1. Achieving independence
  • Lecture 2. Confederation and the constitution
  • Lecture 3. The great debate- Jefferson versus Hamilton
  • Lecture 4. From the farewell address to the quasi war
  • Lecture 5. Jefferson and the "Empire of liberty"
  • Lecture 6. The "Second War for Independence"
  • Disc 2. Lecture 7. John Quincy Adams & American continentalism
  • Lecture 8. "Manifest Destiny" and war with Mexico
  • Lecture 9. Causes and diplomacy of the Civil War
  • Lecture 10. The "New Empire" of overseas imperalism
  • Lecture 11. Informal empire- Roosevelt to Wilson
  • Lecture 12. "The war to end all wars"
  • Disc 3. Lecture 13. The peace treaty and Wilson's heritage
  • Lecture 14. Interwar isolationism and internationalism
  • Lecture 15. U.S. entry into World War II
  • Lecture 16. World War II diplomacy and the FDR legacy
  • Lecture 17. Origins of the Cold War
  • Lecture 18. Cold War turns hot- Asia and the Korean War
  • Disc 4. Lecture 19. Eisenhower and the global Cold War
  • Lecture 20. Kennedy and the ultimate Cold War crisis
  • Lecture 21. Vietnam and the war at home
  • Lecture 22. The Nixon-Kissinger "Grand design"
  • Lecture 23. Ideology anew and the end of the Cold War
  • Lecture 24. The United States and the world since 1991.

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