Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century - Softcover

McGreevey, Robert C.; Fisher, Christopher T.; Dawley, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190279907 ISBN 13: 9780190279905

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Global America tells the story of how Americans were swept up in the swift-moving currents of twentieth-century world history. Drawing on the latest research on the history of the United States in the world, it demonstrates how global interactions and developments transformed both America and the world.

Global America weaves together topics such as social reform, the world wars, and the rise of conservatism in a way that helps readers gain a fresh understanding of America's place in the world. It pays particular attention to themes of race, class, and gender and how each has shaped--and been shaped by--U.S. engagement with the world. In connecting U.S. and world history, Global America argues that the more America sought to change the world, the more the world changed America.

Global America offers a synthesis accessible to undergraduates. The chapters are organized chronologically, beginning with the 1890s and ending in 2013. Starting with U.S. expansion in the late nineteenth century, the book situates American developments within the context of major political and economic events, explores key developments in culture and society, and ends with the rise and partial decline of American power in recent years.

About this title

About the Author

Robert C. McGreevey is Associate Professor of History at The College of New Jersey.

Christopher T. Fisher is Associate Professor of History at The College of New Jersey.

Alan Dawley was Professor of History at The College of New Jersey (1970-2008).

Review

"Global America is clearly written and it takes the standard narrative of U.S. history in a direction both unfamiliar and vital to students in the early twenty-first century. Many textbooks promise to take a particular focus (i.e., race and gender, citizenship, etc.) but almost never succeed in aligning the narrative with the theme. This one does."--Nancy Beck Young, University of Houston

"Global America is extremely accessible, well written, sensibly organized, and relatively concise. It makes an invaluable contribution in that there are very few, if any, comparable and current texts that approach the subject of twentieth-century U.S. history from a global perspective."--Sean P. Cunningham, Texas Tech University

"The insights gained from Global America will prepare students to think broadly about American identity and the complexity of a national history on a much larger and ever-present global stage."--Richard Hughes, Illinois State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0190279907
• ISBN 13: 9780190279905
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480