Description
Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century.
A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and foreign relations from its seventeenth century origins to the modern day. This two-volume reference work presents a collection of historiographical essays by prominent scholars. The essays explore three centuries of America’s global interactions and the ways U.S. foreign policies have been analyzed and interpreted over time. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on the history of U.S. foreign relations; analyze the causes, influences, and consequences of major foreign policy decisions; and address contemporary debates surrounding the practice of American power.
The Companion covers a wide variety of methodologies, integrating political, military, economic, social and cultural history to explore the ideas and events that shaped U.S. diplomacy and foreign relations and continue to influence national identity. The essays discuss topics such as the links between U.S. foreign relations and the study of ideology, race, gender, and religion; Native American history, expansion, and imperialism; industrialization and modernization; domestic and international politics; and the United States’ role in decolonization, globalization, and the Cold War. A comprehensive approach to understanding the history, influences, and drivers of U.S. foreign relation, this indispensable resource:
- Examines significant foreign policy events and their subsequent interpretations
- Places key figures and policies in their historical, national, and international contexts
- Provides background on recent and current debates in U.S. foreign policy
- Explores the historiography and primary sources for each topic
- Covers the development of diverse themes and methodologies in histories of U.S. foreign policy
Offering scholars, teachers, and students unmatched chronological breadth and analytical depth, A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present is an important contribution to scholarship on the history of America’s interactions with the world.
Table of Contents
Volume I: Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century
Chapter 1 Imperial Crisis, Revolution, and a New Nation, 1763 to 1803
David Narrett, The University of Texas at Arlington
Chapter 2 The Early Republic in a World of Empire, 1787 to 1848
Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University
Chapter 3 Time, Talent, and Treasure: Philanthropy in the Early Republic
Annelise Hanson Shrout, University of California Fullerton
Chapter 4 The Articles of Confederation State-System, Early American International Systems, and Antebellum Foreign Policy Analytical Frameworks
Robbie J. Totten, American Jewish University
Chapter 5 Natural Rights: Haitian-American Diplomacy in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Ronald Angelo Johnson, Texas State University
Chapter 6 Towards a “New Indian History” of Foreign Relations: U.S.-American Indian Diplomacy from Greenville to Wounded Knee, 1795-1890
Elspeth Martini, Montclair State University
Chapter 7 Many Manifest Destinies
Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University
Chapter 8 New Research Avenues: U.S. Foreign Relations in the Late Antebellum and the Civil War Era
Phil Magness, American Institute for Economic Research
Chapter 9 Ideology and Interest: The Civil War, U.S. Foreign Affairs, and the World
Andre Fleche, Castleton University
Chapter 10 The United States: Imperium in Imperio in an Age of Imperialism, 1865-1886
Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan University
Chapter 11 New Frontiers Beyond the Seas: The Culture of American Empire and Expansion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, University of Alabama
Chapter 12 Connection and Disruption: American Industrialization and the World, 1865-1917
Peter A. Shulman, Case Western Reserve University
Chapter 13 The Open Door Empire
Marc-William Palen, University of Exeter
Chapter 14 The Statecraft of Theodore Roosevelt and America’s Rise to World Power
Charles Laderman, King’s College – London
Chapter 15 Wilson's Wartime Diplomacy: The United States and the First World War, 1914 to 1918
Ross Kennedy, Illinois State University
Chapter 16 Responding to a Revolution: The “Mexican Question” in the United States
Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University
Chapter 17 Chrysalis of Power: United States Foreign Policy and the Retreat from Isolationism, 1919-1941
B.J.C. McKercher, University of Victoria
Chapter 18 Insulation: The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Years from 1933 to 1941
Kirin Klaus Patel, Maastricht University
Chapter 19 The United States and International Law, 1776 to 1939
Benjamin A. Coates, Wake Forest University
Chapter 20 U.S. Foreign Relations during World War II
Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester
Chapter 21 Rival and Parallel Missions: America and Soviet Russia, 1917 to 1945
David S. Fogelsong, Rutgers University
Chapter 22 The United States, Transnationalism, and the Jewish Question, 1917 to 1948
Sonja Wentling, Concordia University
Chapter 23 Migrants and Transnational Networks in Sino-American Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland – Baltimore County
Chapter 24 The Burden of Empire: The US in the Philippines, 1898 to 1965
Colleen Woods, University of Maryland – Baltimore County
Chapter 25 A History of U.S. International Policing
Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University
Volume II: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Chapter 26 Black Internationalism from Berlin to Black Lives Matter
Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University
Chapter 27 Drugs, Empire, and U.S. Foreign Policy
April Merleaux, Hampshire College
Chapter 28 Military Bases and Overseas Occupation in 20th Century U.S. Foreign Relations
Zach Fredman, Duke Kunshan University
Chapter 29 Remaking the World: The United States and International Development, 1898 to 2015
Stephen Macekura, University of Indiana
Chapter 30 The Early Cold War: Studies of Cold War America in the 21st Century
Masuda Hajimu, National University of Singapore
Chapter 31 United States Power in a Material World
Andrew Friedman, Haverford College
Chapter 32 Propaganda in the Best Sense of the Word? Public Diplomacy and U.S. Diplomatic History since World War I
Sarah Ellen Graham, U.S. Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Chapter 33 Waging War with Words, 1945 to 1963
Lori Clune, California State University, Fresno
Chapter 34 Between Two Ages: United States, Decolonization, and Globalization in the Long Sixties
Ryan Irwin, University at Albany – SUNY
Chapter 35 Foreign Policy in the “Backyard”: The Historiography of US-Latin American Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century
James F. Siekmeier, West Virginia University
Chapter 36 U.S. Culture and the Cuban Revolution
John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco, Ramapo College
Chapter 37 After the Panic: Writing the History of U.S.-Japan Relations since the Occupation
Andrew McKevitt, Louisiana Tech University
Chapter 38 The Nuclear Revolution in American Foreign Policy during the Cold War
Jonathan Reid Hunt, Southampton University
Chapter 39 Against the Bomb: Nuclear Disarmament and Domestic Politics
Paul Rubinson, Bridgewater College
Chapter 40 Interminable: The Historiography of the Vietnam War, 1945 to 1975
Simon Toner, University of Sheffield
Chapter 41 The Cold War in Sub-Saharan Africa
Phillip Muehlenbeck, George Washington University
Chapter 42 The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948 to 1982
Craig Daigle, City College of New York
Chapter 43 Mineral Frontiers in the Twentieth Century
Megan Black, London School of Economics
Chapter 44 Oil and U.S. Foreign Relations
Victor McFarland, University of Missouri
Chapter 45 Oil, Empire, and Covert Action: New Directions in the Historiography of US-Iraqi Relations
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, California State University, Stanislaus
Chapter 46 Iran and the Academy: Intellectual Paths to and from Revolution in the United States
Matthew K. Shannon, Emory & Henry College
Chapter 47 The United States and Afghanistan: Ambiguity and Impasse, 1945-2015
Elisabeth Leake, Leeds University
Chapter 48 Ambivalent Partnerships, Enduring Dilemmas: The United States, India, and Pakistan after Partition
Robert Rakove, Stanford University
Chapter 49 Transnational Activism in U.S.-Central America Relations in the 1980s
Theresa Keeley, University of Louisville
Chapter 50 The Reagan Administration and the World, 1981-1988
James Graham Wilson, Historian’s Office, Department of State
Chapter 51 The Changing History of the End of the Cold War
Sarah B. Snyder, American University
Chapter 52 The Obama Era: Retrenchment and the Challenge of a “Post-American” World, 2009-2017
Robert S. Singh, University of London
