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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A Companion to American Foreign Relations 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. The contributors -- eminent scholars and experts in their subject matter--delve deeply into the literature and integrate discussions of new methodological approaches with more traditional diplomatic history. Each essay concludes with prospects for future work in the field. For the student, scholar, and those interested in the history of American foreign relations, this is an invaluable reference work. Zusammenfassung * An authoritative historiographical volume that surveys the state of U.S. diplomatic history. *25 essays cover the entire history of American foreign relations from the colonial period to the present. * Discusses the major sources and analyzes the most influential books and articles in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors vii Introduction xi Robert D. Schulzinger 1 Ideas and Foreign Affairs 1 H. W. Brands 2 "As Far As We Can": Culture and US Foreign Relations 15 Susan Brewer 3 International Environmental Issues 31 Kurk Dorsey 4 The Early National Period, 1775-1815 48 Peter P. Hill 5 American Expansion, 1815-1860 64 William E. Weeks 6 The United States and Imperialism 79 Frank Ninkovich 7 Relations with Africa since 1900 103 Andrew DeRoche 8 History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US-Japanese Relations, 1900-1945 121 Michael A. Barnhart 9 US-Latin American Relations, 1898-1941: A Historiographical Review 134 Mark T. Gilderhus 10 Woodrow Wilson and World War I 149 Lloyd E. Ambrosius 11 Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period 168 Justus D. Doenecke 12 World War II 188 Mark A. Stoler 13 The Early Cold War 215 Jeremi Suri 14 United States-Latin American Relations, 1942-1960 230 Darlene Rivas 15 From Containment to Containment? Understanding US Relations with China since 1949 255 Evelyn Goh and Rosemary Foot 16 The Korean War 275 James I. Matray 17 Foreign Relations in the 1950s 292 Richard H. Immerman 18 The Vietnam War 309 David L. Anderson 19 Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of the Kennedy-Johnson Administrations 330 Randall B. Woods 20 The United States and the Middle East since 1967 375 Peter L. Hahn 21 US Relations with Latin America, 1961 to the Present: A Historiographic Review 387 Stephen G. Rabe 22 Presidential Elections and the Cold War 404 Melvin Small 23 Détente Over Thirty Years 422 Keith L. Nelson 24 Nationalism and Regionalism in an Era of Globalization: US Relations with South and Southeast Asia, 1975-2000 440 Robert J. McMahon Conclusion: From the End of the Cold War to the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century 455 Robert D. Schulzinger Bibliography ...
