Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The victor: preparing for the mantle of leadership -- Taking charge: America's zest for grand ambitions -- Annexation complete: diplomacy, intrigue, and the force of politics -- The United States and Oregon: "The people here are worn out by delay" -- The United States and Mexico: divergent new world cultures on a path to war -- Britain and Mexico: playing with prospects of a dual war -- The Twenty-ninth Congress: Polk takes command of the national agenda -- End of a treaty: diplomacy and politics at war with each other -- War: "Every consideration of duty and patriotism" -- Vagaries of war: "And may there be no recreant soul to fail or falter now" -- Presidential temperament: "I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government" -- Wilmot's proviso: transformation of the war debate -- The war in the West: patriotism, duty, adventure, and glory -- The new face of war: "We are yet to have a long and wearisome struggle" -- The politics of rancor: constitutional usurpation vs. moral treason -- Dilatory Congress: the challenge of presidential leadership -- Veracruz and beyond: grappling with Mexico's military defiance -- Scott and Trist: a clash of policy and temperament -- Mexico City: the pivot of personality -- The specter of conquest: "Have we conquered peace? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Global communication: background -- Development research traditions and global communication -- The message: the role of international organizations -- Public diplomacy: new dimensions and implications / Nancy Snow -- The medium: global technologies and organizations -- Internet: the evolving frontier - American multimedia conglomerates -- Non-US stakeholders of multimedia conglomerates -- Euromedia: integration and cultural diversity in a changing media landscape / Alexa Robertson -- Global issues, music and MTV -- CNN: international role, impact, and global competitors -- The roles of global news agencies -- Arab media and the Al-Jazeera effect / Lawrence Pintak -- Media globalization in Asia / Junhao Hong -- The role of global advertising -- Summary and conclusions.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A layered history : from a Genoese colony to an Ottoman port -- The rise of Pera : from a necropolis to diplomatic and commercial hub -- Ottoman ahdmanes, origins and development in the early modern period -- War, diplomacy and trade in the seventeethy and eighteenth centuries -- Feeding Istanbul : the merchants of Galata and the provisioning trade -- Between Galata & Marseille : from silks and spices to colonial sugar and coffee -- Sexual and cultural encounters in private and public spaces -- Epilogue : the unraveling of the French Revolution in Pera -- Appendix : Ottoman documents in English translation.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…International business: an overview -- The cultural environments facing business -- The political and legal environments facing business -- The Economic environment -- International trade theory -- Governmental influence on trade -- Regional economic integration and cooperative agreements -- Foreign direct investment -- The foreign-exchange market -- The determination of exchange rates -- Governmental attitudes toward foreign direct investment -- International business negotiations and diplomacy -- Country evaluation and selection -- Collaborative strategies --Control strategies -- Marketing -- Export and import strategies -- Global manufacturing and supply chain management -- Multinational accounting and tax functions -- The multinational finance function -- Human resource management.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Adopting indians into the early U.S. republic -- American Indians and the post-revolutionary era -- Domestic fronts on the eve of 1812 -- A Choctaw mother in slave country -- Adoption in Andrew Jackson's empire -- Defending "civilization" -- Adoption and diplomacy -- Choctaw schooling -- Adoption and the politics of indian removal.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rip Van Winkle's America -- Experiment in republicanism -- A monarchical republic -- The Federalist program -- The emergence of the Jeffersonian Republican party -- The French Revolution in America -- John Adams and the few and the many -- The crisis of 1798-1799 -- The Jeffersonian revolution of 1800 -- Republican society -- The Jeffersonian West -- Law and an independent judiciary -- Chief Justice John Marshall and the origins of judicial review -- Republican reforms -- Between slavery and freedom -- The rising glory of America -- Republican religion -- Republican diplomacy -- The War of 1812 -- A world within themselves.…”