1st Edition
American Foreign Relations Reconsidered 1890-1993
Edited By Gordon Martel
Copyright 1994
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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This major new textbook brings together twelve of the leading scholars of U.S. foreign relations. Each contributor provides a clear, concise summary of an important period or theme in US diplomatic and strategic affairs since the Spanish-American War. Michael Hunt and Joan Hoff provide an overview of the traditions behind US policy and a preview of things to come. Together, the contributors offer... Read more
1 Traditions of American diplomacy: from colony to great power 2 “They don’t come out where you expect”: institutions of American diplomacy and the policy process 3 Economic interest and United States foreign policy 4 Imperialism, American style, 1890–1916 5 Wilsonian diplomacy in war and peace 6 The triumph of isolationism 7 The interpretive wars over the Cold War, 1945–60 8 From Kennedy to Nixon: the end of consensus 9 From détente to the Gulf 10 The United States and the rise of the Third World 11 Reconsidering the nuclear arms race: the past as prelude? 12 American diplomacy: retrospect and prospect
Biography
Gordon Martel is Professor of History and Chair at the University of Northern British Columbia and Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University. He is the editor of The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (1986), Modern Germany Reconsidered, 1870–1945 (1992) and of The New International History series also published by Routledge.
