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	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Ideas and Foreign Affairs	p. 1
"As Far As We Can": Culture and US Foreign Relations	p. 15
International Environmental Issues	p. 31
The Early National Period, 1775-1815	p. 48
American Expansion, 1815-1860	p. 64
The United States and Imperialism	p. 79
Relations with Africa since 1900	p. 103
History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US-Japanese Relations, 1900-1945	p. 121
US-Latin American Relations, 1898-1941: A Historiographical Review	p. 134
Woodrow Wilson and World War I	p. 149
Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period	p. 168
World War II	p. 188
The Early Cold War	p. 215
United States-Latin American Relations, 1942-1960	p. 230
From Containment to Containment? Understanding US Relations with China since 1949	p. 255
The Korean War	p. 275
Foreign Relations in the 1950s	p. 292
The Vietnam War	p. 309
Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of the Kennedy-Johnson Administrations	p. 330
The United States and the Middle East since 1967	p. 375
US Relations with Latin America, 1961 to the Present: A Historiographic Review	p. 387
Presidential Elections and the Cold War	p. 404
Detente Over Thirty Years	p. 422
Nationalism and Regionalism in an Era of Globalization: US Relations with South and Southeast Asia, 1975-2000	p. 440
Conclusion: From the End of the Cold War to the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century	p. 455
Bibliography	p. 461
Index	p. 543
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