v.1. 1750-1900 : Radicals and empire builders : the diplomacy of revolution and independence -- The counting house versus the farm : the first great debate -- War hawks and foreign revolutions : the War of 1812 and the Monroe Doctrine -- Manifest destiny : expansion for the farmer -- Clipper ships and open seas : commerce holds its own -- Young Americans and anxious planters : the sectional conflict at the water's edge -- From Agrarianism to industrialism : the diplomacy of transition -- Markets, crusades, and colonies : the crisis of 1898-1900 v.2. 1900-1955 : Financiers and diplomats : empire building in Asia -- Canals, big sticks, and bankers : increased involvement in latin America, Europe and Africa -- Loans, submarines, and the urge to reform : America goes to war, 1914-1917 --Making peace in the midst of revolutions : Versailles and Washington, 1919-1922 -- Prosperity and expansion - depression and crisis : the political economy of the Roaring Twenties -- A frontier on the Rhine or a fortress Americus : the great debate over national self-sufficiency, 1933-1939 -- From lend-lease to shooting on sight : the undeclared war and Pearl Harbor -- The open door or a big three : ambiguities of wartime diplomacy -- bombs, dollars, and doctrines : The Cold War with Russia -- Colonialism, Nationalism, and radicalism : Revolution and war in the Far East.