A Companion to American Foreign Relations

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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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).

Klappentext
A Companion to American Foreign Relations 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. The contributors -- eminent scholars and experts in their subject matter--delve deeply into the literature and integrate discussions of new methodological approaches with more traditional diplomatic history. Each essay concludes with prospects for future work in the field.
For the student, scholar, and those interested in the history of American foreign relations, this is an invaluable reference work.

Inhalt
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, 17751815 48
Peter P. Hill 5 American Expansion, 18151860 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 USJapanese Relations, 19001945 121
Michael A. Barnhart 9 USLatin American Relations, 18981941: 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 StatesLatin American Relations, 19421960 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 KennedyJohnson 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, 19752000 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

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