Paths to Power The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 [Paperback]

Paths to Power includes essays on US foreign relations though the outbreak of World War II.Paths to Power reviews 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 which serves as a useful primer for students and scholars of American foreign relations.Paths to Power reviews 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 which serves as a useful primer for students and scholars of American foreign relations.Paths to Power reviews 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 ascendency 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 that serves as 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 tol£Ç