The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations provides a comprehensive view of U.S. diplomacy and foreign affairs from the founding to the present.
With contributions from recognized experts from around the world, this volume unveils America’s long and complicated history on the world stage. It presents the United States’ evolution from a weak player, even a European pawn, to a global hegemonic leader over the course of two and a half centuries. The contributors offer an expansive vision of U.S. foreign relations—from U.S.-Native American diplomacy in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the post-9/11 war on terror. They shed new light on well-known events and suggest future paths of research, and they capture lesser-known episodes that invite reconsideration of common assumptions about America’s place in the world. Bringing these discussions to a single forum, the book provides a strong reference source for scholars and students who seek to understand the broad themes and changing approaches to the field.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S. history, political science, international relations, conflict resolution, and public policy, amongst other areas.
Introduction
Tyson Reeder
Part I: Major Themes
1. Locating Empire
Oliver Charbonneau
2. Race, Gender, and Diplomacy
Anne M. Blaschke
3. Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations
Lauren Frances Turek
4. Migration and U.S. Foreign Relations
Maddalena Marinari
5. Biography
David J. Ulbrich
6. Public Opinion
Steven Casey
7. Praying for Democracy: Christianity as Cultural Diplomacy in American-Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Chad R. Diehl
Part II: Early Republic
8. Diplomacy and Independence
Jonathan R. Dull
9. No "Insult Unpunished": Trade and War in the Mediterranean and North Africa, 1785-1805
James R. Sofka
10. Britain, France, and the Road to War
Tyson Reeder
11. The Colossus of the North: The Iberian Empires and the United States, 1776-1823
Edward P. Pompeian
12. China-Oriented: Early American Trade with Asia
Rachel Tamar Van
Part III: Age of Manifest Destiny
13. Before Domestic Dependent Nationhood: Entanglements of Indigenous Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy
Loren Michael Mortimer
14. U.S.-Mexico Relations in the Era of Manifest Destiny
Mary E. Mendoza
15. Civil War Diplomacy
Hugh Dubrulle
16. An Interplay between Manifest Destiny and American Capitalism: Early U.S.-Asia Relations
Anna Wei Marshall
Part IV: World Wars
17. Russian Roulette: The United States of America’s Response to the Revolutions in Russia during World War I
Elizabeth Elsbach
18. The United States and Latin America and the Caribbean, c.1898-1940
Olivia Saunders
19. Where Culture Met Policy: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Europe During World War II
Katy Hull
20. More Than a Springboard for U.S. Cold War Hegemony: Asia and World War II
Michael R. Jin
21. Keeping the Peace? : A Closer Look at U.S. Foreign Relations in the Postwar Period
Kaete O’Connell
Part V: Cold War Era
22. Balancing Needs: A Reassessment of Eisenhower's Foreign Policy
Justin Quinn Olmstead
23. Vietnam: History as Tragedy
Fabian Hilfrich
24. China and United States During the Cold War: Bridging Two Eras
Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson
25. American Policy in the Middle East during the Cold War: Interests, Constraints, and Decision-making
Galen Jackson
26. Decolonization, Human Rights, and Anti-Communism: U.S.-African Relations in the Cold War Era
Heidi Morefield
27. U.S. Policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean during the Cold War
Peter M. Sanchez
Part VI: Global Hegemony
28. Global Hegemony and American Foreign Policy: From the Cold War’s End to 9/11
Spencer D. Bakich
29. Paved with Good Intentions: U.S. Foreign Policy after 9/11
deRaismes Combes and Andrew L. Peek
Biography
Tyson Reeder is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia, USA, where he is an editor with the Papers of James Madison and specializes in Madison’s tenure as secretary of state.
