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Klappentext: "America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States foreign relations from the country's independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies. The book covers key themes including: - the role that notions of "white superiority" played in US foreign policy - the search for absolute security that repeatedly led the United States to trample on the liberties of other countries; - and the idea of American 'exceptionalism' - the clash between the idealism of US rhetoric and its actions - which has led to a persistent failure to understand how "European" U.S. policy actually was. Whilst providing analytical overview, Piero Gleijeses also uses case studies which examine overlooked aspects of U.S. foreign policy, particularly concerning marginalized populations. He draws on archival U.S. and European primary sources and incorporates the latest research from the US, British, French and Spanish archives, as well as newspapers from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. A highly original account of the United States' rise to power drawing on multilingual scholarship, this is an important book for all students and scholars of United States foreign relations up to the First World War"--

The Cuban drumbeat -- Neto, Castro, and Carter : a new beginning? -- The Cubans in Angola -- Strained relations : Cuba and Angola -- The fronts harden : the United States and Cuba, 1978-1980 -- Carter and Southern Africa : a balance sheet -- Enter Reagan -- The wonders of linkage -- Angolan travails -- The failure of Lusaka -- The United States, South Africa, and Savimbi -- The view from Cuba, 1984-1986 -- Havana and Moscow : conflicting strategies -- Negotiations in the offing? -- Cuito Cuanavale -- Maniobra XXXI aniversario -- Chester Crocker meets Jorge Risquet : talks about talks -- The negotiations -- The New York agreements -- Visions of freedom

An account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with US policy toward the continent. The text covers Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961 to the dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-76.

AbstractBefore 1898, the most sustained attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba occurred during the presidency of Franklin Pierce when the debate about slavery was roiling US domestic politics. Spain responded to the threat with a dramatic change of policy: in order to gain the favour and protection of Britain, it ordered that the slave trade to Cuba be ended. This article analyses Pierce's strategy and examines the complex jockeying it precipitated among Washington, London and Madrid. Mining US, British and Spanish archives, it is the first international history of the crisis that Washington's avarice provoked.