A Companion to American Foreign Relations (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schulzinger, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an authoritative volume of historiographical essays that survey the state of U.S. diplomatic history. The essays cover the entire range of the history of American foreign relations from the colonial period to the present. They discuss the major sources and analyze the most influential books and articles in the field.

• Includes discussions of new methodological approaches in diplomatic history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470999035
• Artikelnr.: 38190329

Autorenporträt

Robert D. Schulzinger is Professor of History and Director of the International Affairs Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, he is the editor-in-chief of the society's journal, Diplomatic History. Among his many books are A Time For War: The United Stated And Vietnam, (1997) and U.S. Diplomacy since 1900, 5th Edition (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction xi
Robert D. Schulzinger
1 Ideas and Foreign Affairs 1
H. W. Brands
2 "As Far As We Can": Culture and US Foreign Relations 15
Susan Brewer
3 International Environmental Issues 31
Kurk Dorsey
4 The Early National Period, 1775-1815 48
Peter P. Hill
5 American Expansion, 1815-1860 64
William E. Weeks
6 The United States and Imperialism 79
Frank Ninkovich
7 Relations with Africa since 1900 103
Andrew DeRoche
8 History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US-Japanese Relations,
1900-1945 121
Michael A. Barnhart
9 US-Latin American Relations, 1898-1941: A Historiographical Review 134
Mark T. Gilderhus
10 Woodrow Wilson and World War I 149
Lloyd E. Ambrosius
11 Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period 168
Justus D. Doenecke
12 World War II 188
Mark A. Stoler
13 The Early Cold War 215
Jeremi Suri
14 United States-Latin American Relations, 1942-1960 230
Darlene Rivas
15 From Containment to Containment? Understanding US Relations with China
since 1949 255
Evelyn Goh and Rosemary Foot
16 The Korean War 275
James I. Matray
17 Foreign Relations in the 1950s 292
Richard H. Immerman
18 The Vietnam War 309
David L. Anderson
19 Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of the Kennedy-Johnson
Administrations 330
Randall B. Woods
20 The United States and the Middle East since 1967 375
Peter L. Hahn
21 US Relations with Latin America, 1961 to the Present: A Historiographic
Review 387
Stephen G. Rabe
22 Presidential Elections and the Cold War 404
Melvin Small
23 Détente Over Thirty Years 422
Keith L. Nelson
24 Nationalism and Regionalism in an Era of Globalization: US Relations
with South and Southeast Asia, 1975-2000 440
Robert J. McMahon
Conclusion: From the End of the Cold War to the Beginning of the
Twenty-First Century 455
Robert D. Schulzinger
Bibliography 461
Index 543

Rezensionen

"Indispensable reading for scholars in the field as well as forgraduate students preparing for general exams. Covering the entirefield of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial era to thepresent, the essays highlight the rich variety of new approachesthat have energized international history over the past threedecades."
Journal of Cold War Studies

"[This] work is truly a companion for professors who needquick and easily digestible information ... and for researchers andstudents wishing to read more widely." History

"Indispensible for anyone wishing to understand thebackground to recent debates over US foreign relations, with essaysby leading scholars in a historical field that is among the mostinnovative -- and perhaps, given the current condition ofworld affairs, the most relevant." Walter LaFeber, CornellUniversity

" This is an extremely valuable guide to the recentscholarly literature on the history of US foreign relations. Thecontributors, all respected scholars in their fields, show howhistory and historiography are often inextricably boundtogether." Akira Iriye, Harvard University

"This companion should prove an invaluable reference source forscholars and students in the field." Journal of AmericanStudies