A History of American Foreign Policy, Volume 1: Growth to World Power

by Alexander DeConde

An in depth study of 914 pages of American Foreign Policy in 1963 by Alexander Deconde. The study covers the period when America was a British Colony before American Independence through 1962.

456 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

A historian specializing in American foreign policy, Alexander DeConde earned his B.A. from San Francisco State College and his M.A. and Ph.D from Stanford University. He taught at Stanford, Whittier College, and Duke University. From 1957 to 1961, he was professor of history at the University of Michigan. He subsequently joined the history department at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he remained until his retirement in 1991.