A Companion to American Foreign Relations

Copyright © 2003, 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to American Foreign Relations

Editor(s): Robert D. Schulzinger

Published Online: 10 DEC 2007

Print ISBN: 9780631223153

Online ISBN: 9780470999042

DOI: 10.1002/9780470999042

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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

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xii)

    2. Chapter One

      Ideas and Foreign Affairs (pages 1–14)

      H. W. Brands

    3. Chapter Two

      “As Far As We Can”: Culture and US Foreign Relations (pages 15–30)

      Susan Brewer

    4. Chapter Three

      International Environmental Issues (pages 31–47)

      Kurk Dorsey

    5. Chapter Four

      The Early National Period, 1775–1815 (pages 48–63)

      Peter P. Hill

    6. Chapter Five

      American Expansion, 1815–1860 (pages 64–78)

      William E. Weeks

    7. Chapter Six

      The United States and Imperialism (pages 79–102)

      Frank Ninkovich

    8. Chapter Seven

      Relations with Africa since 1900 (pages 103–120)

      Andrew DeRoche

    9. Chapter Eight

      History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US–Japanese Relations, 1900–1945 (pages 121–133)

      Michael A. Barnhart

    10. Chapter Nine

      US–Latin American Relations, 1898–1941: A Historiographical Review (pages 134–148)

      Mark T. Gilderhus

    11. Chapter Ten

      Woodrow Wilson and World War I (pages 149–167)

      Lloyd E. Ambrosius

    12. Chapter Eleven

      Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period (pages 168–187)

      Justus D. Doenecke

    13. Chapter Twelve

      World War II (pages 188–214)

      Mark A. Stoler

    14. Chapter Thirteen

      The Early Cold War (pages 215–229)

      Jeremi Suri

    15. Chapter Fourteen

      United States–Latin American Relations, 1942–1960 (pages 230–254)

      Darlene Rivas

    16. Chapter Fifteen

      From Containment to Containment? Understanding US Relations with China since 1949 (pages 255–274)

      Evelyn Goh and Rosemary Foot

    17. Chapter Sixteen

      The Korean War (pages 275–291)

      James I. Matray

    18. Chapter Seventeen

      Foreign Relations in the 1950s (pages 292–308)

      Richard H. Immerman

    19. Chapter Eighteen

      The Vietnam War (pages 309–329)

      David L. Anderson

    20. Chapter Nineteen

      Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of the Kennedy–Johnson Administrations (pages 330–374)

      Randall B. Woods

    21. Chapter Twenty

      The United States and the Middle East since 1967 (pages 375–386)

      Peter L. Hahn

    22. Chapter Twenty-One

      US Relations with Latin America, 1961 to the Present: A Historiographic Review (pages 387–403)

      Stephen G. Rabe

    23. Chapter Twenty-Two

      Presidential Elections and the Cold War (pages 404–421)

      Melvin Small

    24. Chapter Twenty-Three

      Détente Over Thirty Years (pages 422–439)

      Keith L. Nelson

    25. Chapter Twenty-Four

      Nationalism and Regionalism in an Era of Globalization: US Relations with South and Southeast Asia, 1975–2000 (pages 440–454)

      Robert J. McMahon

    26. Conclusion: From the End of the Cold War to the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (pages 455–459)

      Robert D. Schulzinger

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      Bibliography (pages 461–542)

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      Index (pages 543–562)

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