Organization of American Historians Journal of American History

Recent Scholarship

International Relations

 

Aono, Toshihiko, “‘It Is Not Easy for the United States to Carry the Whole Load’: Anglo-American Relations during the Berlin Crisis, 1961–1962,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 325–56.

Belevtseva, S. N., “Formirovanie strategii administratsii B. Klintona v otnoshenii Rossii v 1993–1994 gg.” (The formation of the Clinton administration’s foreign policy on Russia, 1993–1994), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov, iss. 2, Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays, issue 2, in memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 220–31. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.

Bischof, Günter, “‘No Action’: The Johnson Administration and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968,” in The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, ed. Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, and Peter Ruggenthaler, 215–36. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. xii, 510 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4304-9.)

Carson, Mark, “The Johnson Administration, the Vietnam War, and the American South’s Response to the Vietnam War,” in The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, ed. Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, and Peter Ruggenthaler, 193–214. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. xii, 510 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4304-9.)

Chi-kwan, Mark, “Vietnam War Tourists: U.S. Naval Visits to Hong Kong and British-American-Chinese Relations, 1965–1968,” Cold War History (London), 10 (Feb. 2010), 1–28.

Friedman, Jason, “Gerald Ford, the Mayaguez Incident, and the Post-imperial Presidency,” Congress & the Presidency, 37 (Jan.–April 2010), 22–44.

Gardner, Richard N., “The Bretton-gatt System after Sixty-five: A Balance Sheet of Success and Failure,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 47 (no. 1, 2008), 31–71.

Gervais, Pierre, “A Game of Claims and Expectations: Credit, Failure, and Personal Relationships across the Atlantic,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/gervais/.

Gripentrog, John, “The Transnational Pastime: Baseball and American Perceptions of Japan in the 1930s,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 247–73.

Jang, Jun-Kab, “Nixon eui yeogyojeongchaek ilki” (Nixon’s foreign policy and post–Cold War internationalism), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 28 (Nov. 2008), 179–209. In Korean.

Johnstone, Andrew, “Americans Disunited: Americans United for World Organization and the Triumph of Internationalism,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (Feb. 2010), 1–18.

Kim, Bong Joong, “Migukeui jungdong jeongchaek gwa Suez wigi” (U.S. diplomatic relations with the Middle East and the Suez crisis of 1956), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 28 (Nov. 2008), 99–128. In Korean.

Kostin, A. A., “Rol’ SMI v amerikano-iugoslavskikh otnosheniiakh v 1945–1946 gg.” (The role of the mass media in American-Yugoslavian relations, 1945–1946), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 172–81. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.

Lerner, Mitchell, “‘A Big Tree of Peace and Justice’: The Vice Presidential Travels of Lyndon Johnson,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 357–93.

Pearce, Adrian J., “The Hope-Barings Contract: Finance and Trade between Europe and the Americas, 1805–1808,” English Historical Review (Oxford), 124 (Dec. 2009), 1324–52.

Pullin, Eric D., “‘Noise and Flutter’: American Propaganda Strategy and Operation in India during World War II,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 275–98.

Rice, Mark, “His Name Was Don Francisco Muro: Reconstructing an Image of American Imperialism,” American Quarterly, 62 (March 2010), 49–76.

Ryabtzeva, E. E., “Oshchestvennoe mnenie po problemam vneshnei politiki SShA vo vtoroi polovine XX veka: Istoriograficheskii obzor” (American public relations and foreign policy in the late 20th century: A historiographic essay), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 207–19. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.

Shemo, Connie, “‘How Better Could She Serve Her Country?’: Cultural Translators, U.S. Women’s History, and Kang Cheng’s ‘An Amazon in Cathay,’” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Winter 2009), 111–33.

Shin, Jo-Young, “Jabonjungsimjueui: Mikuk jabonjueui eui damnonjeok paekweonei daehan bipan” (Capitaliocentrism: A critique of the discursive hegemony of U.S. capitalism), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 29 (May 2009), 199–222. In Korean.

Shpotov, B. M., “Razvitie sovetsko-amerikanskikh ekonomicheskikh otnoshenii v 1920-kh gody” (The development of Soviet-American economic relations in the 1920s), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 147–55. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.

Steury, Donald P., “Strategic Warning: The cia and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia,” in The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, ed. Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, and Peter Ruggenthaler, 237–48. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. xii, 510 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4304-9.)

Weir, Rob, “Vagabond Abroad: Mark Twain’s 1895 Visit to New Zealand,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (Oct. 2009), 487–514.

van Wyk, Martha, “Sunset over Atomic Apartheid: United States–South African Nuclear Relations, 1981–93,” Cold War History (London), 10 (Feb. 2010), 51–79.

Yang, Kuisong, and Yafeng Xia, “Vacillating between Revolution and Détente: Mao’s Changing Psyche and Policy toward the United States, 1969–1976,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 395–423.

Yi, Hyunhwee, “Miguk daeoe jeongchaekeui gwanseup gwa 21 saeki mijung gwangaeeui jeonmang” (The prejudice of U.S. foreign policy and the prospect for Sino-American relations in the 21st century), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 29 (May 2009), 157–98. In Korean.

 

Austin, Ryan Thomas, “Creating a ‘Piratical State Organization for Benevolence’: The Commission for Relief in Belgiuim, 1914–1915” (Iowa State University, 2009). Order No. DA3355195.

Bowden, Robin L., “Diagnosing Nazism: U.S. Perceptions of National Socialism, 1920–1933” (Kent State University, 2009). Order No. DA3367785.

Ciafone, Amanda Marie, “Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of Challenges to the Global Corporation” (Yale University, 2009). Order No. DA3361892.

Confortini, Catia Cecilia, “Imaginative Identification: Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1945–1975)” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3355210.

Gronbeck-Tedesco, John A., “Reading Revolution: Politics in the U.S.-Cuban Cultural Imagination, 1930–1970” (University of Texas, Austin, 2009). Order No. DA3360304.

Hudson, Peter James, “Dark Finance: An Unofficial History of Wall Street, American Empire, and the Caribbean, 1889–1929” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3361257.

Lu, Yeh-chung, “From Confrontation to Accommodation: China’s Policy toward the U.S. in the Post–Cold War Era” (George Washington University, 2009). Order No. DA3360318.

Mak, Stephen Seng-hua, “‘America’s Other Internment’: World War II and the Making of Modern Human Rights” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3355703.

Matthews, Eliza, “Bring the Bombs out of the Basement: The United States, the npt, and the Nuclear Non-signatories, 1961–1974” (University of Queensland, Australia, 2010).

McKevitt, Andrew C., “Consuming Japan: Cultural Relations and the Globalizing of America, 1973–1993” (Temple University, 2009). Order No. DA3359679.

Moss, Richard A., “Behind the Back Channel: Achieving Détente in U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1969–1972” (George Washington University, 2009). Order No. DA3366392.

Porter, Stephen Ross, “Defining Public Responsibility in a Global Age: Refugees, ngos, and the American State” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3362289.

Rakove, Robert Benjamin, “A Genuine Departure: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3362877.

Sobottke, Thomas M., “The Imperial Enterprise: Anglo-American Reaction to the Spanish-American and Boer Wars, 1898–1902” (Marquette University, 2008). Order No. DA3357937.

Van Wagenen, Michael Scott, “Remembering the Forgotten War: Memory and the United States–Mexican War, 1848–2008” (University of Utah, 2009). Order No. DA3364927.

Aid, Matthew M., The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009. viii, 423 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-59691-515-2.)

Dür, Andreas, Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930–2010. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. xviii, 246 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4823-2.)

Grathwol, Robert P., and Donita M. Moorhus, Bricks, Sand, and Marble: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1947–1991. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2009. xxiv, 672 pp. Cloth, $73.00, isbn 978-0-16-084164-4. Paper, $61.00, isbn 978-0-16-081738-0.)

Jacobs, Robert A., The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. xiv, 151 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-726-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-55849-727-6.)

Kagan, Kimberly, ed., The Imperial Moment. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii, 250 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-03587-4.)

 

Mirovoi ekonomicheskii krizis kontsa 1920-kh–nachala 1930-kh gg.: Istoriia i sovremennost’. Materialy kruglogo stola 20 aprelia 2009 g. (The world economic crisis of the late 1920s to the early 1930s: History and modernity; The materials of the round table held on April 20, 2009). (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 142 pp. isbn 978-5-94067-278-4.) In Russian. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Nugent, Walter, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. (New York: Knopf, 2008. xviii, 387 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-4000-4292-0.)

Sachs, Dana, The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam. (Boston: Beacon, 2010. xx, 258 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-8070-4241-0.)

Tillman, Barrett, Whirlwind: The Air War against Japan, 1942–1945. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. xviii, 316 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-4165-440-7.)

Tucker, Phillip Thomas, Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2010. xvi, 404 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-932033-93-9.)

Zheng, Da, Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East; A Cultural Biography. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010. xxx, 314 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4693-3.)

 

Black, Dawn Lea, and Alexander Yu. Petrov, trans. and eds., Natalia Shelikhova: Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010. l, 237 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-60223-073-6.)

Conway, Christopher, ed., The U.S.-Mexican War: A Binational Reader, trans. Gustavo Pellón. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010. xxxii, 208 pp. Cloth, $42.00, isbn 978-1-60384-221-1. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-60384-220-4.)

Rasmussen, Kathleen B., ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 31: Foreign Economic Policy, 1973–1976. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2009. xxx, 1111 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-16-084410-2.)

Schanberg, Sydney, Beyond the Killing Fields: War Writings. (Dulles: Potomac, 2010. xii, 228 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-1-59797-505-6.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

Recent Issues

Icon Downarrow Full Text

The full text of current issues (1999–present) of the Journal of American History is available to subscribers electronically at the History Cooperative. Back issues are available at JSTOR.

Icon Downarrow Subscribe to the JAH

A subscription to the JAH is one of the many benefits available to members of the Organization of American Historians (oah). To join the oah and receive the JAH, complete and submit a membership application at the oah Web site.

Read more >

Icon Downarrow Purchase a Single Issue

Selected current and back issues of the JAH are available both as single issues and for large quantities, at volume pricing. Please the OAH fulfillment department regarding your order.