U.S. in the World
Professor Erez Manela
Historiography, Methods, Narratives
1. George Herring, From Colony to Superpower
2. Hogan & Paterson, eds. Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 2nd ed. (2004)
3 Michael J. Hogan, America in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations Since
1941 (1995)
4. Charles Maier, “Marking Time: The Historiography of International Relations,” in Kammen, The Past
Before Us (1980)
5. “AHR Conversation: On Transnational History,” AHR 111 (2006)
6. Erez Manela, “The United States in the World,” in Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr, eds., American History
Now (2011)
Interpretive Frameworks, Thematic Approaches
7. George Kennan, American Diplomacy (1951)
8. William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, rev. ed. (1972)
9. Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987)
10. Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith (2012)
11. Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age
12. Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006)
13. Charles Maier, Among Empires (2006)
14. Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, American Umpire (2013)
To the Civil War
15. Bradford Perkins, The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 in Warren Cohen, ed., The
Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations (1993)
16. Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address (1961)
17. David Armitage, Declaration of Independence (2007)
18. Thomas R. Hietala, Manifest Design (1985)
19. Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right (1995)
20. Richard White, The Middle Ground (1991)
21. Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts (2008)
From Civil War to World War
22. Walter LaFeber, The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 in Warren Cohen, ed., The
Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations (1993)
23. Robert Beisner, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900, 2nd ed. (1975)
24. Ussama Makdisi, “Reclaiming the Land of the Bible,” AHR 102 (1997)
25. James A. Field, “American Imperialism: The Worst Chapter in Almost Any Book,” AHR 83 (1978)
26. Ernest May, American Imperialism
27. Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the SpanishAmerican and Philippine-American Wars (1998)
28. Julian Go & Anne L. Foster, eds., The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global
Perspectives (2003)
29. Paul Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (2006)
WWI and Interwar Period
30. Akira Iriye, The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945 in Warren Cohen, ed., The Cambridge History of
American Foreign Relations (1993)
31. Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1992)
32. Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment (2007)
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33. E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis, new ed. (2001)
34. Thomas McCormick, “Drift or Mastery? A Corporatist Synthesis for American Diplomatic History,”
Reviews in American History, 10 (Dec. 1982)
35. Emily Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World (1999)
36. Victoria De Grazia, Irresistible Empire (2005)
WWII and Aftermath
37. John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War (1972)
38. Warren F. Kimball, The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (1991)
39. S. M. Plokhii, Yalta: The Price of Peace (2009)
40. Norman Naimark, The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949
(1997)
41. John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986)
42. John Dower, Embracing Defeat (1999)
43. William Roger Louis, Imperialism at Bay, 1941-1945: The United States and the Decolonization of
the British Empire (1977)
The Cold War
44. John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, rev. exp. ed. (2005)
45. John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know (1997)
46. Geir Lundestad, “Empire by Invitation? The United States and Western Europe, 1945-52.” Journal for
Peace Research 23:3 (1986)
47. Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
(2005)
48. Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War (2012)
49. Lien-Hang Nguyen, Hanoi’s War (2012)
50. Jeremi Suri, “Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus,” J. of Cold War
Studies 4 (2002)
Beyond the Cold War: Decolonization and Development
51. Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution (2002)
52. Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003)
53. David Engerman and Corinna Unger, “Towards a Global History of Modernization,” Diplomatic
History 33:3 (2009)
54. David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission (2010)
55. Michael E. Latham, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in
the Kennedy Era (2000)
56. Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception (2008)
57. Nick Cullather, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia (2010)
58. Erez Manela, “A Pox on Your Narrative,” Diplomatic History 34:2
The US in International Society
59. Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000)
60. Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for
Human Rights, 1944-1955 (2003)
61. Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (2005)
62. Mary Ann Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (2001)
63. Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the
Contemporary World (2002)
64. Amy L.S. Staples, The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture
Organization, and World Health Organization Have Changed the World, 1945-1965 (2006)
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