America in the World

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OVERVIEW

George Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776

Michael Hogan and Thomas Paterson, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations

EMPIRE AND EARLY AMERICA

Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France c.1500-c.1800

J.H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830

Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire

FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR NEW REPUBLIC

Jonathan Dull, A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution

Amy Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire

Matthew Guterl, American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation

Ussama Makdisi, Artilleries of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East

Eliga Gould, Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire

AMERICAN EMPIRE AND MANIFEST DESTINY

William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898

Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico

Paul Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

Brian Rouleau, With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire

Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Andrew Rotter, Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines

PROGRESSIVISM AND WORLD WAR I

Emily Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion 1890-1945

Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism

Julia Irwin, Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening

Ian Tyrrell, Reforming the World: The Creation of America’s Moral Empire

IMMIGRATION, LABOR, AND GATEKEEPING

Julie Greene, The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal

Donna Gabaccia, Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective

Julian Lim, Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Eric Roorda, The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945

Brooke Blower, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture Between the World Wars

Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History

Megan Black, The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power

WORLD WAR II AND OCCUPATION

John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

Susan Carruthers, The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace

COLD WAR

Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961

Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena

John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American Natural Security Policy

Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

Thomas Field, From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era

Barbara Keys, Reclaiming Human Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s

Margaret Peacock, Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

Paul Chamberlin, The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace

VIETNAM WAR

Jeremy Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente

Seth Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957

Jeremy Varon, Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies

Chris Appy, American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity

GLOBALIZATION AND THE PRESENT

Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th Century Europe

Andrew McKevitt, Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America

Melani McAlister, The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals