A Companion to American Foreign Relations [Paperback]

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.

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• Includes discussions of new methodological approaches in diplomatic history.

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction xi
Robert D. Schulzinger

1 Ideas and Foreign Affairs 1
H. W. Brands

2 “As Far As We Can”: Culture and US Foreign Relations 15
Susan Brewer

3 International Environmental Issues 31
Kurk Dorsey

4 The Early National Period, 1775–1815 48
Peter P. Hill

5 American Expansion, 1815–1860 64
William E. Weeks

6 The United States and Imperialism 79
Frank Ninkovich

7 Relations with Africa since 1900 103
Andrew DeRoche

8 History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US–Japanese Relations, 1900–1945 121
Michael A. Barnhart

9 US–Latin American Relations, 1898–1941: A Historiographical Review 134
Mark T. Gilderhus

10 Woodrow Wilson and World War I 149
Lloyd E. Ambrosius

11 Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period 168
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