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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521496802 ISBN 13: 9780521496803

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

This volume includes state-of-the-art essays and historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading diplomatic historians. The essays in part one offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of diplomatic history. Part two features essays that survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of the world or on the foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is the most comprehensive assessment of the literature on US foreign policy to be published in nearly twenty years.

Review:

..".the volume provides a fascinating snapshot of the state of the field of diplomatic history, which seems like Gaul to be divided into three parts: the good, the bad, and the ugly." Foreign Affairs

Book Description:

This volume includes state-of-the-art essays and historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941. The essays in part one offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in diplomatic history. Part two features essays that survey the literature on US relations with particular regions or on the foreign policies of presidents.