America in the World

The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941

Frank Costigliola, Michael J. Hogan

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781107001466
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107595453
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• America in the World, Second Edition
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Charlie Maier Scare and the Historiography of American Foreign Relations, 1959–1980
• 3 Chaps Having Flaps: The Historiography of U.S. Foreign Relations, 1980–1995
• 4 Still Contested and Colonized Ground: Post–Cold War Interpretations of U.S. Foreign Relations during World War II
• 5 Recent Literature on Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision
• 6 The Cold War
• 7 Cold War Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon
• 8 The War that Never Ends: Historians and the Vietnam War
• 9 Culture and the Cold War: U.S.–Latin American Historiography since 1995
• 10 Impatient Crusaders: The Making of America’s Informal Empire in the Middle East
• 11 Explaining the Rise to Global Power
• 12 Bringing the Non-State Back In
• 13 Technology and the Environment in the Global Economy
• 14 U.S. Mass Consumerism in Transnational Perspective
• 15 A Worldly Tale
• Index