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

392 Pages·2014·4.1 MB·English

by  Frank Costigliola, Michael J. Hogan

America in the World, Second Edition

This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign
relations since 1941 by some of the country’s leading historians. Several
of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field
of foreign/international relations history while others survey the liter-
ature on U.S. relations with particular regions of the world or on the
foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is a compre-
hensive assessment of the historical literature on U.S. foreign policy
that highlights recent developments in the field.
Frank Costigliola is Professor of History at the University of
Connecticut. He is the editor of The Kennan Diaries (2014) and the
author of Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped
Start the Cold War (2012); France and the United States: The Cold War
Alliance since World War II (1992); and Awkward Dominion: American
Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919–1933
(1984). Professor Costigliola is a former president of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has received fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Michael J. Hogan is Distinguished Professor of History at the University
of Illinois, Springfield. Hogan is the author of A Cross of Iron: Harry
S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954
(2000); Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in
Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918–1928 (1977); and The
Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western
Europe, 1947–1952 (1987). He is the coeditor, with Thomas G.
Paterson, of Explaining American Foreign Relations History, second
edition (2003). Professor Hogan is a former president of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations and served for fifteen years
as editor of its journal, Diplomatic History.

America in the World

The Historiography of American
Foreign Relations since 1941
Second Edition
Edited by
FrAnk CoStigliolA
University of Connecticut
MiChAEl J. hogAn
University of Illinois, Springfield
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America in the World : the historiography of American foreign relations
since 1941 / [edited by] Frank Costigliola, Michael J. Hogan. – Second edition.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-107-00146-6 (hardback) – ISBN 978-0-521-17246-2 (paperback)
1. United States – Foreign relations – 1945–1989 – Historiography. 2. United
States – Foreign relations – 1933–1945 – Historiography. I. Costigliola, Frank,
1946– II. Hogan, Michael J., 1943–
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Contents

List of Contributors page ix
Preface xiii
1. Introduction 1
Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan
2. The Charlie Maier Scare and the Historiography of
American Foreign Relations, 1959–1980 9
Mark Philip Bradley
3. Chaps Having Flaps: The Historiography of U.S. Foreign
Relations, 1980–1995 30
Andrew J. Rotter
4. Still Contested and Colonized Ground: Post–Cold
War Interpretations of U.S. Foreign Relations during
World War II 57
Mark A. Stoler
5. Recent Literature on Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision: The
Triumph of the Middle Ground? 83
J. Samuel Walker
6. The Cold War 105
Curt Cardwell
7. Cold War Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F.
Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon 131
Stephen G. Rabe
8. The War that Never Ends: Historians and the Vietnam War 167
Robert K. Brigham
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9. Culture and the Cold War: U.S.–Latin American
Historiography since 1995 188
Mark T. Gilderhus and Michael E. Neagle
10. Impatient Crusaders: The Making of America’s Informal
Empire in the Middle East 212
Douglas J. Little
11. Explaining the Rise to Global Power: U.S. Policy toward
Asia and Africa since 1941 236
Mark Atwood Lawrence
12. Bringing the Non-State Back In: Human Rights and
Terrorism since 1945 260
Brad Simpson
13. Technology and the Environment in the Global Economy 284
Jonathan Reed Winkler
14. U.S. Mass Consumerism in Transnational Perspective 307
Emily S. Rosenberg
15. A Worldly Tale: Global Influences on the Historiography
of U.S. Foreign Relations 338
Thomas (“Tim”) Borstelmann
Index 361