Lauren Turek
Preliminary Comps Reading List
U.S. Diplomatic History
15 June 2010
EARLY AMERICAN DIPLOMACY AND EXPANSION
Bemis, Samuel Flagg. Jay's Treaty; a Study in Commerce and Diplomacy. New York:
McMillan, 1924.
Dull, Jonathan R. A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1985.
Graebner, Norman A. Empire on the Pacific; a Study in American Continental Expansion. New
York: Ronald Press Co, 1955.
Hendrickson, David C. Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding. Lawrence: The
University of Kansas Press, 2003.
Hietala, Thomas. Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.
Lewis, James E. The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood: The United States and
the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783-1829. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1998.
Marks, Frederick W. Independence on Trial. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press,
1973.
May, Ernest. The Making of the Monroe Doctrine. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 1975.
McMahon, Robert J. “The Republic as Empire: American Foreign Policy in the American
Century,” in Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of theTwentieth Century
(2001)
McCoy, Drew. The Elusive Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Stagg, J. C. A. Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American
Republic, 1783-1830. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Stephanson, Anders. Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right. New
York: Hill and Wang, 1995
RISE OF AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW EMPIRE
Hofstadter, Richard. “Cuba, the Philippines and Manifest Destiny,” in The Paranoid
Style in American Politics. New York: Vintage, 1967, 147-87.
Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the
Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1998.
Kagan, Robert. Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the
Dawn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Knopf, 2006.
LaFeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1963.
Love, Eric. Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
May, Ernest. Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power. New York:
Harcourt and Brace, 1961.
Perez, Jr., Louis A. “Incurring a Debt of Gratitude: 1898 and the Moral Sources of
United States Hegemony in Cuba,” The American Historical Review (April 1999).
Pletcher, David M. “Rhetoric and Results: A Pragmatic View of American Economic
Expansion, 1865-98” Diplomatic History 5 (Spring 1981): 93-104.
Zakaria, Fareed. From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
Beale, Howard. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1956.
WOODROW WILSON, WWI, AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Levin, N. Gordon. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and
Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Link, Arthur. Woodrow Wilson: War, Revolution, and Peace. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan
Davidson, 1979.
Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of
Anticolonial Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Mayer, Arno J. Political Origins of the New Diplomacy, 1917-1918. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1959.
Offer, Avner. The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
INTERWAR PERIOD AND DOLLAR DIPLOMACY
Jonas, Manfred. Isolationism in America, 1935-1941. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,
1966.
Leffler, Melvyn P. The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French
Security, 1919-1933. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
---. “Expansionist Impulses and Domestic Constraints, 1921-1932” in Economics and World
Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789. New York : Columbia
University Press, 1984.
Rosenberg, Emily S. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar
Diplomacy, 1890-1945. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
Williams, William Appleman. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. Cleveland: World
Publishing, 1959.
WORLD WAR II
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1979.
Dower, John. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York : Pantheon
Books, 1986.
Waldo Heinrichs, Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War
II. NY: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Kimball, Warren. The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1991.
Reynolds, David. From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the
Second World War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
Stoler, Mark. Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S.
Strategy in World War II. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1972.
Kolko, Joyce and Gabriel Kolko. The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign
Policy, 1945-1954. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
Leffler, Melvyn. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and
the Cold War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.
May, Ernest. American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68. Boston: Bedford Books of St.
Martin's Press, 1993.
Schaller, Michael. The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
MARSHALL PLAN, EUROPEAN RECONSTRUCTION, AND VISIONS FOR THE POSTWAR WORLD
Borgwardt, Elizabeth. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century
Europe. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Hitchcock, William. The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent
1945-2002. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Hogan, Michael, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western
Europe, 1947-1952. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Trachtenberg, Marc. A Constructed Peace: The Making of European Settlement, 1945-1963.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
GENERAL COLD WAR
Friedburg, Aaron. In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-statism and its Cold War
Grand Strategy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
Leffler, Melvyn. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold
War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Zubok, Vladislav. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to
Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
THE COLD WAR: PLACES, EVENTS AND PEOPLE
Atwood, Mark Lawrence. Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War
in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Bowie, Robert and Richard Immerman, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped and Enduring
Cold War Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Cahn, Anne. Killing Détente: The Right Attacks the CIA. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1998.
David Farber, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with
Radical Islam. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Hanhimaki, Jussi. The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Herring, George. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Hunt, Michael. Lyndon Johnson's War. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
May, Ernest and Philip Zelikow. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban
Missile Crisis. New York: Norton, 2002.
Little, Douglas, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Litwak, Robert. Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of
Stability, 1969-1976. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Logevall, Frederik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in
Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Nelson, Kieth. The Making of Detente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam.
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Preston, Andrew. Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008.
Rabe, Stephen G. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts
Communist Revolution in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1999.
Sarotte, Mary Elise. 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe. Princeton University
Press, 2009.
Suri, Jeremi. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2003.
Yaqub, Salim. Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
SYNTHETIC OVERVIEWS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS
Hixson, Walter. The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Hogan, Michael and Thomas G. Paterson. Explaining the History of American Foreign
Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Hunt, Michael H. Ideology and US Foreign Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
---. “Traditions of American Foreign Diplomacy: From Colony to Great Power”, in American
Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993 (1994): 1-20.
Kennan, George. American Diplomacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict
from 1500 to 2000. New York: Random House, 1987.
THEMATIC STUDIES AND THE "NEW INTERNATIONAL HISTORY"
Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: Race Relations and American Foreign
Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Connelly, Matthew. Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Latham, Michael. Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in
the Kennedy Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
POST-1991
Brooks, Stephen and William C. Wohlforth. World Out of Balance: International Relations and
the Challenge of American Primacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Chollet, Derek and James Goldgeier. America Between the Wars, From 11/9 to 9/11: The
Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on
Terror. New York: Public Affairs, 2008.
Mann, James. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. New York: Viking, 2004.
ADDITIONAL BOOKS: RELIGION, CORE VALUES, AND FOREIGN POLICY
Feingold, Henry L. “Silent No More:” Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort,
1967–1989. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.
Gunn, T. Jeremy. Spiritual Weapons: The Cold War and the Forging of an American National
Religion. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009.
Hill, Patricia R. “Religion as a Category of Diplomatic Analysis.” Diplomatic History 24, no. 4
(Fall 2000): 633-640.
Inboden, William. Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945 – 1960: The Soul of
Containment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
McAlister, Melanie. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East,
1945-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Reed, James. The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, 1911-1915. Cambridge,
MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University: Distributed by Harvard
University Press, 1983.
Preston, Andrew. “Bridging the Gap between the Sacred and the Secular in the History of
American Foreign Relations.” Diplomatic History 30, no. 5 (November 2006): 783-812.
Ribuffo, Leo. “Religion and American Foreign Policy: The Story of a Complex Relationship.”
The National Interest 52 (1998 Summer).
Settje, David E. Lutherans and the Longest War: Adrift on a Sea of Doubt about the Cold and
Vietnam Wars, 1964-1975. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.
Sikkink, Kathryn. Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2004.
Smith, Christian. Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Tuveson, Ernest. Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America’s Millenial Role. Chicago : University
of Chicago Press, 1980.
Walker, William O. III. National Security and Core Values in American History. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
ADDITIONAL BOOKS: PUBLIC OPINION AND FOREIGN POLICY
Bailey, Thomas. The Man in the Street: The Impact of American Public Opinion in Foreign
Policy. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1964
DeConde, Alexander. Ethnicity, Race, And American Foreign Policy: A History. Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1992.
Holsti, Ole R. Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy. Ann Arbor: The University of
Michigan Press, 1996.
Hughes, Barry B. Domestic Context of American Foreign Policy. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman
and Company, 1978.
Sobel, Richard. The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam:
Constraining the Colossus. NY: Oxford University Press, 2001.