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.

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).

Notes on Contributors

vii

Introduction

xi

Robert D. Schulzinger

Ideas and Foreign Affairs

1

(14)

H. W. Brands

``As Far As We Can'': Culture and US Foreign Relations

15

(16)

Susan Brewer

International Environmental Issues

31

(17)

Kurk Dorsey

The Early National Period, 1775--1815

48

(16)

Peter P. Hill

American Expansion, 1815--1860

64

(15)

William E. Weeks

The United States and Imperialism

79

(24)

Frank Ninkovich

Relations with Africa since 1900

103

(18)

Andrew DeRoche

History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US-Japanese Relations, 1900--1945

121

(13)

Michael A. Barnhart

US--Latin American Relations, 1898--1941: A Historiographical Review

134

(15)

Mark T. Gilderhus

Woodrow Wilson and World War I

149

(19)

Lloyd E. Ambrosius

Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period

168

(20)

Justus D. Doenecke

World War II

188

(27)

Mark A. Stoler

The Early Cold War

215

(15)

Jeremi Suri

United States--Latin American Relations, 1942--1960

230

(25)

Darlene Rivas

From Containment to Containment? Understanding US Relations with China since 1949

255

(20)

Evelyn Goh

Rosemary Foot

The Korean War

275

(17)

James I. Matray

Foreign Relations in the 1950s

292

(17)

Richard H. Immerman

The Vietnam War

309

(21)

David L. Anderson

Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of the Kennedy--Johnson Administrations

330

(45)

Randall B. Woods

The United States and the Middle East since 1967

375

(12)

Peter L. Hahn

US Relations with Latin America, 1961 to the Present: A Historiographic Review

387

(17)

Stephen G. Rabe

Presidential Elections and the Cold War

404

(18)

Melvin Small

Detente Over Thirty Years

422

(18)

Keith L. Nelson

Nationalism and Regionalism in an Era of Globalization: US Relations with South and Southeast Asia, 1975--2000

440

(15)

Robert J. McMahon

Conclusion: From the End of the Cold War to the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

455

(6)

Robert D. Schulzinger

Bibliography

461

(82)

Index

543

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