America in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941

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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
	Presences
	Absences
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
	Origins of the Cold War: 1945–1953
	The Middle Cold War: 1953 to early 1980s
	The End of the Cold War: Early 1980s–1991
	The “Cultural Turn” in Cold War Studies
	Conclusion
7 Cold War Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon
	Introduction
	Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
	John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)
	Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963–1969)
	Richard M. Nixon (1969–1974)
	Conclusion
8 The War that Never Ends: Historians and the Vietnam War
9 Culture and the Cold War: U.S.–Latin American Historiography since 1995
	Cultural Studies
	Cold War Studies
	Conclusion
10 Impatient Crusaders: The Making of America’s Informal Empire in the Middle East
11 Explaining the Rise to Global Power
	The Second World War in Asia
	The United States and Asia in the Early Cold War
	The United States and Africa
	The Post-Vietnam Era
	After the Cold War
12 Bringing the Non-State Back In
13 Technology and the Environment in the Global Economy
14 U.S. Mass Consumerism in Transnational Perspective
	Consumption in World History
	Spread of U.S. Mass Consumerism and Debates over “Americanization” in the Early Twentieth Century
	Consumer Movements
	The Cold War and Consumerism
	Advertising in International Context
	Learning from Commodities
	Conclusion
15 A Worldly Tale
Index