Paths to Power
The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941

Paths to Power includes essays on US foreign relations though the outbreak of World War II.

Michael J. Hogan (Edited by)

9780521662871, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 February 2000

316 pages
23.8 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.57 kg

Paths to Power includes essays on US foreign relations from the founding of the nation though the outbreak of World War II. Essays by leading historians review the literature on American diplomacy in the early Republic and in the age of Manifest Destiny, on American imperialism in the late nineteenth century and in the age of Roosevelt and Taft, on war and peace in the Wilsonian era, on foreign policy in the Republican ascendancy of the 1920s, and on the origins of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the current literature, helpful suggestions for further research, and a useful primer for students and scholars of American foreign relations.

1. The historiography of pre-1941 American foreign relations: an introduction Michael J. Hogan
2. New directions in the study of early American foreign relations William Earl Weeks
3. The great American desert revisited: recent literature and prospects for the study of American foreign relations Kinley Brauer
4. Coming to terms with Empire: the historiography of late-nineteenth century American foreign relations Edward P. Crapol
5. Symbiosis versus hegemony: new directions in the foreign relations historiography of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft Richard H. Collin
6. The historiography of Wilsonian democracy David Steigerwald
7. Reaching for the brass ring: the recent historiography of interwar American foreign relations Brian McKercher
8. US policy and the European War, 1939–1941 Justus D. Doenecke
9. The origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: synthesis impossible? Michael A. Barnhart.

Subject Areas: Historiography [HBAH]