Alexander Noonan
American Foreign Relations (Jacobs)
Fall 2010: Approved (73)
SURVEY WORKS:
1. Bemis, Samuel Flagg. A Diplomatic History of the United States. 2nd ed. New York:
Henry Holt and Company, 1942 [1936].
2. Brands, H.W. What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign
Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
3. Hogan, Michael J., and Thomas G. Paterson, eds. Explaining the History of American
Foreign Relations. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
4. Hunt, Michael H. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1987.
5. Schulzinger, Robert D., ed. A Companion to American Foreign Relations, Blackwell
Companions to American History. Malden, M.A.: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
6. Williams, William Appleman. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1998 [1962].
7. David C. Hendrickson, Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over
International Relations, 1789-1941. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2009.
EARLY REPUBLIC:
8. Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign
Policy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
9. Gilbert, Felix. To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.
10. Horsman, Reginald. The Diplomacy of the New Republic, 1776-1815, The American
History Series. Arlington Heights, Ill.: H. Davidson, 1985.
11. Perkins, Bradford. The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865. Edited by Warren I.
Cohen, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1993.
AMERICAN EXPANSION:
12. Eisenhower, John S.D. So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848. New
York: Random House, 1989.
13. Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American
West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987.
14. May, Ernest R. The Making of the Monroe Doctrine. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1975.
15. Murphy, Gretchen. Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of
U.S. Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
THE CIVIL WAR AND IMPERIALISM:
16. Collin, Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy, and Expansion: A New View
of American Imperialism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
17. Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked
the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1998.
18. Jones, Howard. Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign
Relations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
19. Kramer, Paul A. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the
Philippines. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
BECOMING A WORLD POWER:
20. Hannigan, Robert E. The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
21. Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign
Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.
22. LaFeber, Walter. The Search for American Opportunity, 1865-1913. Edited by Warren I.
Cohen, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1993.
23. LaFeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 18601898. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1963.
24. Rosenberg, Emily S. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
WORLD WAR I:
25. Cooper, John Milton. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight
for the League of Nations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
26. Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World
Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
27. Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins
of Anticolonial Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
28. Tucker, Robert W. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America's
Neutrality, 1914-1917. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007.
INTERWAR YEARS:
29. Cohen, Warren I. Empire Without Tears: American Foreign Relations, 1921-1933.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
30. Gardner, Lloyd C. Safe for Democracy: Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 19131923. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
31. Iriye, Akira. The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945. Edited by Warren I. Cohen, The
Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1993.
32. Rosenberg, Emily S. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of
Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
WORLD WAR II:
33. Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
34. Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1986.
35. Iriye, Akira. The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. London:
Longman, 1987.
36. Kimball, Warren F. Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War.
New York: W. Morrow, 1997.
37. Walker, J. Samuel. Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs
Against Japan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
EARLY COLD WAR:
38. Endy, Christopher. Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
39. Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American
National Security Policy During the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press,
2005.
40. Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
41. Jacobs, Seth. America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race and
U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004.
42. Offner, Arnold A. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 19451953. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
LATE COLD WAR to PRESENT:
43. Bacevich, Andrew J. American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S.
Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
44. Cohen, Warren I. America's Falling Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Since the Cold War.
Malden, M.A.: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
45. LaFeber, Walter. Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism. New York: W.W.
Norton and Company, 1999.
46. Logevall, Fredrik, and Andrew Preston, eds. Nixon in the World: American Foreign
Relations, 1969-1977. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
47. McCormick, Thomas J. America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the
Cold War and After. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
48. Suri, Jeremi. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2003.
COLD WAR CULTURE:
49. Caute, David. The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the
Cold War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
50. Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism and American
Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
51. von Eschen, Penny M. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold
War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
52. Kuznick, Peter J., and James Gilbert, eds. Rethinking Cold War Culture. Washington
D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.
53. Sayre, Nora. Running Time: Films of the Cold War. New York: The Dial Press, 1982.
54. Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1991.
LATIN AMERICA and the CARIBBEAN:
55. Horne, Gerald. Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and
Independence Struggles in the British West Indies. Philidelphia: Temple University Press,
2007.
56. Joseph, Gilbert M., Catherine C. Legrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore, eds. Close
Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
57. Joseph, Gilbert M., and Daniela Spenser, eds. In from the Cold: Latin America's New
Encounter with the Cold War. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
58. Neptune, Harvey R. Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States
Occupation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
59. Greg Grandin, Empire’s Workshop
EUROPE:
60. Foglesong, David S. The American Mission and the "Evil Empire:" The Crusade for a
"Free Russia" since 1881. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
61. de Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through 20th-Century
Europe. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
62. LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2000. 9th ed. Boston:
McGraw Hill, 2002.
63. Leffler, Melvyn P. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman
Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.
64. Wagnleitner, Reinhold. Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of
the United States in Austria after the Second World War. Translated by Diana M. Wolf.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
ASIA:
65. Bradley, Mark Philip. Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial
VIetnam, 1919-1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
66. Klein, Christina. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 19451961. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
67. McCormick, Thomas J. China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901.
Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1990.
68. Rotter, Andrew J. Comrades at Odds: the United States and India, 1947-1964. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2000.
69. Stueck, William W. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic
History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:
70. Allison, Robert J. The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World,
1776-1815. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
71. Little, Douglas. American Orientalism: the United States and the Middle East Since
1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
72. Yaqub, Salim. Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle
East. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Books Relevant to Other Lists:
73. Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History.