Explaining history american foreign relations

Michael J. Hogan, Thomas G. Paterson0521832799, 9780521832793

Originally published by Cambridge in 1991, this text has become an indispensable volume not only for teachers and students of international history and political science, but also general readers seeking an introduction to American diplomatic history. Along with substantially revised essays from the first edition, it presents entirely new material on postcolonial theory, borderlands history, modernization theory, gender, race, memory, cultural transfer, and critical theory. The book defines the study of American international history by stimulating research in new directions, and encouraging interdisciplinary thinking, especially between diplomatic history and other fields of American history in an increasingly globalized world.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Contents……Page 7
Preface to the Second Edition……Page 9
Contributors……Page 11
1 Introduction……Page 17
2 Defining and Doing the History of United States Foreign Relations: A Primer……Page 26
3 Toward a Pluralist Vision: The Study of American Foreign Relations as International History and National History……Page 51
4 Theories of International Relations……Page 67
Realism……Page 69
Global Society, Interdependence, Institutionalism……Page 78
Marxism, World Systems, Dependency……Page 81
Constructivism……Page 83
Decision Making……Page 85
Bureaucratic and Organizational Politics……Page 88
Small Group Politics……Page 90
Individual Leaders……Page 91
Post-Modern Challenges……Page 96
Conclusion……Page 99
A Note on Sources……Page 105
5 Bureaucratic Politics……Page 107
6 Psychology……Page 119
7 National Security……Page 139
8 Corporatism……Page 153
9 World Systems……Page 165
10 Dependency……Page 178
Borders of Empire……Page 192
Disciplinary Borders and the Cultural Turn……Page 200
Temporal Borders and Postmodernity……Page 205
12 The Global Frontier: Comparative History and the Frontier-Borderlands Approach……Page 210
13 Modernization Theory……Page 228
14 Ideology……Page 237
15 Culture and International History……Page 257
16 Cultural Transfer……Page 273
17 Reading for Meaning: Theory, Language, and Metaphor……Page 295
Meaning……Page 304
Culture……Page 306
Language……Page 307
Metaphors and Other Figures of Speech……Page 308
Binary Oppositions……Page 316
Conclusion……Page 318
18 What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Gender History as Foreign Relations History……Page 320
19 Race to Insight: The United States and the World, White Supremacy and Foreign Affairs……Page 339
20 Memory and Understanding U.S. Foreign Relations……Page 352
Index……Page 369