America in the World (eBook, ePUB)

The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941
Redaktion: Costigliola, Frank

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians. Some of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of foreign/international relations history. Others survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of the world or on the foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the historical literature on US foreign policy that highlights recent developments in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316020821
• Artikelnr.: 52930014

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan; 2. The Charlie
Maier scare and the historiography of American foreign relations, 1959-80
Mark Philip Bradley; 3. Chaps having flaps: the historiography of US
foreign relations, 1980-95 Andrew J. Rotter; 4. Still contested and
colonized ground: post-Cold War interpretations of US foreign relations
during World War II Mark A. Stoler; 5. Recent literature on Truman's atomic
bomb decision: the triumph of the middle ground? J. Samuel Walker; 6. The
Cold War Curt Cardwell; 7. Cold War presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John
F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon Stephen G. Rabe; 8. The
war that never ends: historians and the Vietnam war Robert K. Brigham; 9.
Trends in the literature on US-Latin American relations Mark T. Gilderhus
and Michael E. Neagle; 10. Impatient crusaders: the making of America's
informal empire in the Middle East Douglas A. Little; 11. Explaining the
rise to global power: US policy toward Asia and Africa since 1941 Mark
Atwood Lawrence; 12. Bringing the non-state back in: human rights and
Terrorism since 1945 Brad Simpson; 13. Technology and the environment in
the global economy Jonathan Reed Winkler; 14. US mass consumerism in
transnational perspective Emily S. Rosenberg; 15. A worldly tale: global
influences on the historiography of US foreign relations Thomas 'Tim'
Borstelmann.