TY - BOOK AU - Herring, George C. TI - Years of Peril & Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 SN - 978-0-19-021246-9 U1 - 327.73 23 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press N1 - 1. "To Begin in the World over again": Foreign Policy and the Birth of the Republic, 1776-1788 2. "None who can make us afraid": The New Republic in a Hostile World, 1801-1815 3. "Purified as by fire": Republicanism imperiled and reaffirmed 4. "Leave the rest to us": The assertive republic, 1815-1837 5. A dose of Arsenic: Slavery, expansion and the road to disunion, 1837-1861 6. "Last best hope": the union, the confederacy and the civil war diplomacy 1861-1877 7. "A good enough England": Foreign relations in gilded age, 1877-1893 8. The war of 1898, the new Empire and the dawn of the American century, 1893-1901 9. "Bursting with good intentions": The United States in World Affairs, 1901-1913 10. " A new age": Wilson, the Great War and the quest for a new World Order, 1913-1921 ER -