Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Authors
- Preface & Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 New Directions in the Study of Early American Foreign Relations
- 3 The Great American Desert Revisited: Recent Literature and Prospects for the Study of American Foreign Relations, 1815-1861
- 4 Coming to Terms with Empire: The Historiography of Late Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations
- 5 Symbiosis versus Hegemony: New Directions in the Foreign Relations Historiography of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
- 6 The Reclamation of Woodrow Wilson?
- 7 Reaching for the Brass Ring: The Recent Historiography of Interwar American Foreign Relations
- 8 The United States and the European War, 1939-1941: A Historiographical Review
- 9 The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: Synthesis Impossible?
- Index
Preface & Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2018
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Authors
- Preface & Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 New Directions in the Study of Early American Foreign Relations
- 3 The Great American Desert Revisited: Recent Literature and Prospects for the Study of American Foreign Relations, 1815-1861
- 4 Coming to Terms with Empire: The Historiography of Late Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations
- 5 Symbiosis versus Hegemony: New Directions in the Foreign Relations Historiography of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
- 6 The Reclamation of Woodrow Wilson?
- 7 Reaching for the Brass Ring: The Recent Historiography of Interwar American Foreign Relations
- 8 The United States and the European War, 1939-1941: A Historiographical Review
- 9 The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: Synthesis Impossible?
- Index
Summary
The essays in this volume were originally published in Diplomatie History, the Journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). I am indebted to the Society for permission to republish the essays here, and to the authors for revising their essays and waiving their claim to any republication fees. Those fees, together with royalties from the sale of this volume, will be contributed to the Lawence E. Gelfand-Armin Rappaport Fund. Tom Patterson and I established that fund several years ago to honor our former graduate advisors, both founding members of SHAFR, and to support the editorial office of Diplomatie History.
I am also indebted to Frank Smith, my editor at Cambridge University Press. Thanks to his efforts much of my work as the editor of Diplomatie History has been pulled together in this and other volumes that I hope will be of Service to graduate students and scholars in the field. Thanks are due as well to The Ohio State University for its support of the Journal, to the Mershon Center at Ohio State for its help with the Graduate Workshop in Diplomatie History, to Nate Citino and Bruce Khula for aid in preparing the manuscript, and to Kurt Schultz for expert copyediting. But my deepest gratitude is to the graduate students who have helped me with Diplomatie History over more than a dozen years, starting with the newest set, Matthew Davis and Jennifer Walton, and working back to Nate Citino, Bruce Khula, Susan Landrum, Bruce Karhoff, Amy Staples, Paul Pierpaoli, Josef Ostyn, Darryl Fox, Paul Wittekind, Toby Rosenthal, Kurt Schultz, and especially Ann Heiss, who served first as editorial assistant, then as assistant editor, and now (since 1992) as associate editor of the Journal. All of us in SHAFR are indebted to these colleagues, and none more so than I.
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