AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS
Lost in the Cold War
Designs on Empire
John T. Downey, Thomas J. Christensen, and Jack Lee Downey
Andrew Priest
The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW
Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Jack Downey’s decades as a prisoner of war in China and the efforts to bring him home. Downey’s lively and gripping memoir—written in secret late in life—interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences, including fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a 3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors, and posing for “show” photographs for propaganda purposes. $27.95 / 22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19912-4
America's Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism
Andrew Priest offers a new understanding of the roots of American empire that foregrounds the longer history of American thinking on European imperialism. He traces the development of American thinking about European imperialism in the years after the Civil War, before the United States embarked on its own overseas colonial projects. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19745-8 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-19744-1 2021 304 pages 11 illus.
August 2022 328 pages
A NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER AND WARREN I. COHEN BOOK ON AMERICA -EAST ASIAN RELATIONS
Isolating the Enemy
Fearing the Worst
Diplomatic Strategy in China and the United States, 1953–1956
How Korea Transformed the Cold War
Tao Wang
Samuel F. Wells Jr.
Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict.
Tao Wang offers a new account of Sino– American relations in the mid-1950s that situates the two great powers in their international context. He reveals how both the United States and China adopted a policy of attempting to isolate their adversary and explores how Chinese and American leaders perceived and reacted to each other’s strategies.
$45.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-19274-3
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19817-2
2019 600 pages 20 illus.
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19816-5
WOODROW WILSON CENTER SERIES
2021 336 pages 9 illus.
STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE,
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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