A companion to American foreign relations / edited by Robert D. Schulzinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schulzinger, Robert D., 1945-

Series:

Blackwell companions to American history.

Blackwell companions to American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (578 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A Companion to American Foreign Relations; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Ideas and Foreign Affairs; 2 "As Far As We Can": Culture and US Foreign Relations; 3 International Environmental Issues; 4 The Early National Period, 1775-1815; 5 American Expansion, 1815-1860; 6 The United States and Imperialism; 7 Relations with Africa since 1900; 8 History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US-Japanese Relations, 1900-1945; 9 US-Latin American Relations, 1898-1941: A Historiographical Review; 10 Woodrow Wilson and World War I

11 Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period12 World War II; 13 The Early Cold War; 14 United States-Latin American Relations, 1942-1960; 15 From Containment to Containment? Understanding US Relations with China since 1949; 16 The Korean War; 17 Foreign Relations in the 1950s; 18 The Vietnam War; 19 Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of the Kennedy-Johnson Administrations; 20 The United States and the Middle East since 1967; 21 US Relations with Latin America, 1961 to the Present: A Historiographic Review; 22 Presidential Elections and the Cold War; 23 Détente Over Thirty Years

24 Nationalism and Regionalism in an Era of Globalization: US Relations with South and Southeast Asia, 1975-2000Conclusion: From the End of the Cold War to the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-542) and index.

ISBN:

9786610284542

9781405165686

1405165685

9781280284540

1280284544

9781780340944

178034094X

9780470703328

0470703326

9780470999035

0470999039

9780470999042

0470999047

9781405128865

1405128860

OCLC:

184983746