A companion to American foreign relations

Author(s)

• Schulzinger, Robert D.

Bibliographic Information

A companion to American foreign relations

edited by Robert D. Schulzinger

（Blackwell companions to American history）

Blackwell, 2006

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-542) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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 Detente 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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA80600909
• ISBN:
  • 9781405149860
• LCCN: 2002153754
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 562 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E183.7
  • DC21 : 327.73
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : United States -- Foreign relations
  • LCSH : United States -- Foreign relations -- Historiography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA45586515