America in the World
The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941

This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians.

Frank Costigliola (Edited by), Michael J. Hogan (Edited by)

9781107001466, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 December 2013

392 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.69 kg

'The purpose of this new edition, write the editors Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan, is to demonstrate 'how far the field has come and what still needs to be done'. Fourteen essays by eminent scholars do just that. … Graduate students and professors will find America in the World a first-rate review of the historiography and future of diplomatic history.' Scott Kaufman, The Journal of American History

This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians. Some of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of foreign/international relations history. Others survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of the world or on the foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the historical literature on US foreign policy that highlights recent developments in the field.

1. Introduction Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan
2. The Charlie Maier scare and the historiography of American foreign relations, 1959–80 Mark Philip Bradley
3. Chaps having flaps: the historiography of US foreign relations, 1980–95 Andrew J. Rotter
4. Still contested and colonized ground: post-Cold War interpretations of US foreign relations during World War II Mark A. Stoler
5. Recent literature on Truman's atomic bomb decision: the triumph of the middle ground? J. Samuel Walker
6. The Cold War Curt Cardwell
7. Cold War presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon Stephen G. Rabe
8. The war that never ends: historians and the Vietnam war Robert K. Brigham
9. Trends in the literature on US-Latin American relations Mark T. Gilderhus and Michael E. Neagle
10. Impatient crusaders: the making of America's informal empire in the Middle East Douglas A. Little
11. Explaining the rise to global power: US policy toward Asia and Africa since 1941 Mark Atwood Lawrence
12. Bringing the non-state back in: human rights and Terrorism since 1945 Brad Simpson
13. Technology and the environment in the global economy Jonathan Reed Winkler
14. US mass consumerism in transnational perspective Emily S. Rosenberg
15. A worldly tale: global influences on the historiography of US foreign relations Thomas 'Tim' Borstelmann.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [HBLW3], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], History of the Americas [HBJK]