Ideology in U.S. foreign relations new histories / edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nichols, Christopher McKnight, editor.

Milne, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

United States--Foreign relations--Philosophy.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Summary:

How does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? This book explores the ideological landscape of international relations from the colonial era to the present. It offers a foundational statement on the intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction, by Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne

Part I: Ideologies and the People

1. Indigenous Subjecthood and White Populism in British America, by Matthew Kruer

2. American Presidents and the Ideology of Civilization, by Benjamin A. Coates

3. Containing the Multitudes: Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy Ideas at the Grassroots Level, by Michaela Hoenicke-Moore

4. "Mrs. Sovereign Citizen": Women's International Thought and American Public Culture, 1920-1950, by Katharina Rietzler

Part II: Ideologies of Power

5. Competing Free Trade Traditions in U.S. Foreign Policy from the American Revolution to the " American Century", by Marc-William Palen

6. The Righteous Cause: John Quincy Adams and the Limits of American Exceptionalism, by Nicholas Guyatt

7. Antislavery and Empire: The Early Republican Party Confronts the World, by Matthew Karp

8. The Fearful Giant: National Insecurity and U.S Foreign Policy, by Andrew Preston

9. Unilateralism as Ideology, by Christopher McKnight Nichols

Part III: Ideologies of the International

10. "For Young People": Protestant Missions, Geography, and American Youth at the End of the Nineteenth Century, by Emily Conroy-Krutz

11. Eugenia Charles, the United States, and Military Intervention in Grenada, by Imaobong Umoren

12. I Think of Myself as an International Citizen: Flemmie P. Kittrell's Internationalist Ideology, by Brandy Thomas Wells

13. Just War as Ideology: A Militant Ecumenism of Catholics and Evangelicals, by Raymond Haberski Jr.

Part IV: Ideologies and Democracy

14. Freedom as Ideology, by Jeremi Suri

15. Roads Not Taken: The Delhi Declaration, Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, and the Lost Futures of 1989, by Penny Von Eschen.

16. Not Just Churches: American Jews, Joint Church Aid, and the Nigeria-Biafra War, by Melani McAlister

17. Contentious Designs: Ideology and U.S. Immigration Policy, by Daniel Tichenor

Part V: Ideologies of Progress

18. Capital and Immigration in the Era of the Civil War, by Jay Sexton

19. The Progressive Origins of Project RAND, by Daniel Bessner

20. Cold War Liberals, Neoconservatives, and the Rediscovery of Ideology, by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Michael Franczak

21. The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas's Star Wars, by Daniel Immerwahr

22. Dual-Use Ideologies: How Science Came to Be Part of the United States' Cold War Arsenal, by Audra J. Wolfe

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55427-3

OCLC:

1336404250