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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
1 For substantial reviews of this historiography, see Charles E. Neu, ‘The changing interpretive structure of American foreign policy’, and, more especially, Trask, David F., ‘Writings on American foreign relations: 1957 to the present’ in Braeman, John, Bremner, Robert H. and Brody, David (eds.). Twentieth-century American foreign policy (Ohio State University Press, 1971), pp. 1–57. 58–118Google Scholar.
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