A Companion to American Foreign Relations

Cover......Page 1
ISBN 0-631-22315-0......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
CHAPTER ONE: Ideas and Foreign Affairs......Page 16
CHAPTER TWO: “As Far As We Can”: Culture and US Foreign Relations......Page 30
CHAPTER THREE: International Environmental Issues......Page 46
CHAPTER FOUR: The Early National Period, 1775–1815......Page 63
CHAPTER FIVE: American Expansion, 1815–1860......Page 79
CHAPTER SIX: The United States and Imperialism......Page 94
CHAPTER SEVEN: Relations with Africa since 1900......Page 118
CHAPTER EIGHT: History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US–Japanese Relations, 1900–1945......Page 136
CHAPTER NINE: US–Latin American Relations, 1898–1941: A Historiographical Review......Page 149
CHAPTER TEN: Woodrow Wilson and World War I......Page 164
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period......Page 183
CHAPTER TWELVE: World War II......Page 203
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Early Cold War......Page 230
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: United States–Latin American Relations, 1942–1960......Page 245
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: From Containment to Containment? Understanding US Relations with China since 1949......Page 270
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Korean War......Page 290
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Foreign Relations in the 1950s......Page 307
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Vietnam War......Page 324
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of the Kennedy–Johnson Administrations......Page 345
CHAPTER TWENTY: The United States and the Middle East since 1967......Page 390
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: US Relations with Latin America, 1961 to the Present: A Historiographic Review......Page 402
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Presidential Elections and the Cold War......Page 419
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Détente Over Thirty Years......Page 437
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Nationalism and Regionalism in an Era of Globalization: US Relations with South and Southeast Asia, 1975–2000......Page 455
CONCLUSION: From the End of the Cold War to the Beginning of theTwenty-First Century......Page 470
Bibliography......Page 476
Index......Page 558