Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Charlie Maier Scare and the Historiography of American Foreign Relations, 1959–1980
- 3 Chaps Having Flaps: The Historiography of U.S. Foreign Relations, 1980–1995
- 4 Still Contested and Colonized Ground: Post–Cold War Interpretations of U.S. Foreign Relations during World War II
- 5 Recent Literature on Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision
- 6 The Cold War
- 7 Cold War Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon
- 8 The War that Never Ends: Historians and the Vietnam War
- 9 Culture and the Cold War: U.S.–Latin American Historiography since 1995
- 10 Impatient Crusaders: The Making of America’s Informal Empire in the Middle East
- 11 Explaining the Rise to Global Power
- 12 Bringing the Non-State Back In
- 13 Technology and the Environment in the Global Economy
- 14 U.S. Mass Consumerism in Transnational Perspective
- 15 A Worldly Tale
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Charlie Maier Scare and the Historiography of American Foreign Relations, 1959–1980
- 3 Chaps Having Flaps: The Historiography of U.S. Foreign Relations, 1980–1995
- 4 Still Contested and Colonized Ground: Post–Cold War Interpretations of U.S. Foreign Relations during World War II
- 5 Recent Literature on Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision
- 6 The Cold War
- 7 Cold War Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon
- 8 The War that Never Ends: Historians and the Vietnam War
- 9 Culture and the Cold War: U.S.–Latin American Historiography since 1995
- 10 Impatient Crusaders: The Making of America’s Informal Empire in the Middle East
- 11 Explaining the Rise to Global Power
- 12 Bringing the Non-State Back In
- 13 Technology and the Environment in the Global Economy
- 14 U.S. Mass Consumerism in Transnational Perspective
- 15 A Worldly Tale
- Index
Summary
This volume is intended to complement Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, another book of essays. While the second edition of Explaining was edited by Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson and was published in 2004, the third edition is, like this volume, edited by Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan, and it will appear in 2015. The essays in Explaining discuss the various conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of foreign and international relations history. The chapters in this volume provide an overview of the recent literature in that field.
Each of the authors in the second edition of America in the World was asked to address the literature on a particular topic that has appeared since 1995, when the first edition was published. The essays do not present a unified theme or approach, but the combined result is a generally comprehensive survey of the best recent literature in what has become an ever-widening and more diverse field. We are indebted to the many friends and colleagues, particularly the contributors, who helped in the preparation of this volume. We are also grateful to our editor, Debbie Gershenowitz, and the staff at Cambridge University Press for their enthusiasm and work on behalf of the project.
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- America in the WorldThe Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013