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Through its lively and accessible narrative, The World Transformed: 1945 to Present provides students with an account of the political, socio-economic, and cultural developments that have shaped global events since 1945.

Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained US bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. Devoting equal attention to Asian and American perspectives, the authors follow the long arc of conflict across seventy-five years from the Philippines through Japan and Korea to Vietnam, tracing along the way American ambition, ascendance, and ultimate de...

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Hunt reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders more comprehensible--if no less troubling--the tangled origins of the war.

Repeatedly in the twentieth century, the United States has been involved in confrontations with other countries, each with the potential for widespread international and domestic upheaval, even disaster. In this book Michael H. Hunt focuses on seven such crises, presenting for each an illuminating introduction and a rich collection of original documents. His epilogue considers the nature of international crises and U.S. record in dealing with ...

Oxford University Press is pleased to be the new publisher of the bestselling anthology The World Transformed, 1945 to the Present: A Documentary Reader, Second Edition. Edited by Michael H. Hunt, this collection invites students to interpret and evaluate 180 documents organized into forty topical sections ranging over the last seven decades and virtually the entire globe.

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Suitable for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this title sheds light on the Vietnam War. It reminds the readers that the conflict touched the lives of many people in various social and political situations and spanned a good deal more time than the decade of direct US combat.

Suitable for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this title sheds light on the Vietnam War. It reminds the readers that the conflict touched the lives of many people in various social and political situations and spanned a good deal more time than the decade of direct US combat.

What road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, this book demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent.

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