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Brady, Kevin, “Unspoken Words: James Monroe’s Involvement in the Magee-Gutierrez Filibuster,” East Texas Historical Journal, 45 (no 1, 2007), 58–68.

Braziel, Jana Evans, “Haiti, Guantánamo, and the ‘One Indispensable Nation’: U.S. Imperialism, ‘Apparent States,’ and Postcolonial Problematics of Sovereignty,” Cultural Critique, 64 (Fall 2006), 127–60.

Falicov, Tamara L., “Hollywood’s Rogue Neighbor: The Argentine Film Industry during the Good Neighbor Policy, 1939–1945,” Americas, 63 (Oct. 2006), 245–60.

Gantt, Jonathan W., “Irish-American Terrorism and Anglo-American Relations, 1881–1885,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 5 (Oct. 2006), 325–57.

Gassert, Philipp, “What Then Is the Anti-American, This New Man? On Power and Culture in the Anti-American Century,” in Europe and America: Cultures in Translation, ed. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Markus Hünemörder, and Meike Zwingenberger, 119–30. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2006. xvi, 210 pp. €38.00, isbn 978-3-8253-5258-5.)

Gilani, Tariq, “U.S.-Pakistan Relations: The Way Forward,” Parameters, 36 (Winter 2006–2007), 84–102.

Gray, Ralph D., “Hoosier Author as Diplomat: Meredith Nicholson in Latin America, 1933–1941,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (Dec. 2006), 355–69.

Hanzawa, Asahiko, “Chuto ni okeru igirisu amerika ‘hikoshiki teikoku no kigen” (The origins of the Anglo-American informal empire in the Middle East, 1945–1947), Kokusai Seiji (Tokyo) (no. 141 2005), 72–85. In Japanese.

Junker, Detlef, “Pax Americana: The United States and Europe in the Twentieth Century,” in Britain and Germany in the Twentieth Century, ed. Manfred Görtemaker, 123–44. (New York: Berg, 2005. 256 pp. $89.95, isbn 978-1859738429.)

Klimke, Martin, and Wilfried Mausbach, “Auf der äußeren Linie der Befreiungskriege: Die raf und der Vietnamkonflikt,” in Die raf und der linke Terrorismus (The raf and leftist terrorism), ed. Wolfgang Kraushaar, 620–43. (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006. 1,344 pp. €78.00, isbn 978-3936096651.)

Ko, Young-gun, and Jin-young Kim, “A Psychohistory of Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb,” Journal of Psychohistory, 34 (Winter 2007), 222–40.

Manela, Erez, “Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia: Dreams of East-West Harmony and the Revolt against Empire in 1919,” American Historical Review, 111 (Dec. 2006), 1327–51.

Mausbach, Wilfried, “‘Burn, ware-house, burn!’ Modernity, Counterculture, and the Vietnam War in West Germany,” in Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960–1980, ed. Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried, 175–202. (New York: Berghahn, 2006. 434 pp. $85.00, isbn 1-84545-009-4.)

Onozawa, Toru, “Gendai Amerika to ‘teikoku’” (Should U.S. global power be described as an “empire”?), Shirin (Kyoto), 88 (no. 1, 2005), 90–125. In Japanese.

Ordaz, Romay, and María Angeles, “Las Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas en archivos del fbi. (Emigración y exilio español de 1936 a 1975 en EE.UU)” (The confederate Hispanic societies in the archives of the fbi. [Spanish emigration and exile from 1936 to 1975 in the United States]), Revista Complutense de Historia de América (Madrid), 32 (2006), 227–47. In Spanish.

Roberts, Geoffrey, “Sexing up the Cold War: New Evidence on the Molotov-Truman Talks of April 1945,” Cold War History (London), 4 (April 2004), 105–25.

Schaller, Michael, “Reagan and the Cold War,” in Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America’s Fortieth President, by Kyle Longley, Jeremy D. Mayer, Michael Schaller, and John W. Sloan, 3–40. (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. xviii, 150 pp. Cloth, $56.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1590-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7656-1591-6.)

Takahashi, Hiroko, “Daigo fukuryumaru hisai to to amerika seifu no taio” (From Daigo Fukuryumaru to responses of the American government), in Kakusareta Hibakusha (Hidden Victims of the atomic bomb), by Tetsuo Maeda, 85–160. (Tokyo: Gaifusha, 2005. ¥3,000, isbn 4773629096.) In Japanese.

Takayasu, Kensuke, “Beikoku tono kyori to kokueki no tsuikyu” (The pursuit of national interest in the wake of the changing Anglo-American relationship), Kokusai Seiji (Tokyo) (no. 141 2005), 86–100. In Japanese.

Vassilev, Rossen, “Public Opinion and Bulgaria’s Involvement in the Iraq War,” East European Quarterly, 40 (Winter 2006), 467–87.

 

Atkins, Jacqueline Marx, “Wearing Propaganda: Civilian Textiles on the Japanese Home Front, 1931–1945, with Reference to Britain and the United States” (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2006). Order No. DA3212116.

Barrett, Roby Carol, “‘Come quickly sweet’ Muslims: American Foreign Policy in the Middle East, 1958–1963” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3215304.

Borgerson, Scott Gerald, “Of Sea and Shore: The American Global Port City’s Internationalist Approach to U.S. Foreign Policy” (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2006). Order No. DA3215386.

Frazier, Javan David, “Atomic Apartheid: United States–South African Nuclear Relations from Truman to Reagan, 1945–1989” (Auburn University, 2006). Order No. DA3215707.

Hendershot, Robert M., “Family Spats: Perception, Illusion, and Sentimentality in the Formation of the Modern Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1950–1976” (Central Michigan University, 2006). Order No. DA3210082.

Jongnam, Na, “Making Cold War Soldiers: The Americanization of the South Korean Army, 1945–1955” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3212472.

Kodosky, Robert J., “The Joint United States Public Affairs Office in Vietnam: The Truth and Consequences of American Psychological Operations” (Temple University, 2006). Order No. DA321182.

Marlo, Francis Herbert, “The Intellectual Roots of Reagan’s Strategy” (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2006). Order No. DA3215382.

Rohrer, Scott R., “From Demons to Dependents: American-Japanese Social Relations during the Occupation, 1945–1952” (Northwestern University, 2006). Order No. DA3212785.

Stoneman, Timothy H. B., “Capturing Believers: American International Radio, Religion, and Reception, 1931–1970” (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006). Order No. DA3212303.

Swartzburg, Mark Ellis, “The Call for America: German-American Relations and the European Crisis, 1921–1924/25” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3207375.

Ziesche, Philipp, “Cosmopolitan Patriots in the Age of Revolution: Americans in Paris, 1788–1800” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214336.

 

Adams, Valerie L., Eisenhower’s Fine Group of Fellows: Crafting a National Security Policy to Uphold the Great Equation. (Lanham: Lexington, 2006. xii, 233 pp. $58.00, isbn 978-0-7391-0958-8.)

Baldelli, Celozzi, and Pia Grazia, Richard M. Nixon. Una politica americana per l’Europa e il Medio Oriente, 1969–70 (Richard M. Nixon. An American policy for Europe and the Middle East, 1969–70). (Rome: Gangemi, 2006. 230 pp. €19.00, isbn 884920941.) In Italian.

Beir, Robert L., Roosevelt and the Holocaust: A Rooseveltian Examines the Policies and Remembers the Times. (Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade, 2006. xxxvi, 324 pp. $26.95, isbn 1-56980-311-0.)

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xii, 434 pp. $95.00, isbn 1-58046-222-7.)

Calandra, Benedetta, L’America della solidarietà. L’accoglienza dei rifugiati cileni e argentini negli Stati Uniti (1973–1983) (The America of solidarity. The reception of Chilean and Argentinean refugees in the United States [1973–1983]). (Rome: Nuova Cultura, 2006. 310 pp. €11.00, isbn 8861340210.) In Italian.

Celada, Antonio R., Manuel González de la Aleja, and Daniel Pastor García, eds., Los brigadistas de habla inglesa y la Guerra Civil española (English-speaking soldiers and the Spanish civil war). (Salamanca: Editorial Ambos Mundos para la Universidad de Salamanca, 2006. 501 pp. isbn 84-7455-108-0.) In Spanish.

Dumbrell, John, and David Ryan, eds., Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies, and Ghosts. (New York: Routledge, 2007. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-40562-1. Paper, $35.95, isbn 978-0-415-40563-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Ference, Gregory C., ed., The Portrayal of Czechoslovakia in the American Print Media, 1938–1989. (Boulder: East European Monographs, 2006. vi, 182 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-88033-590-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Goda, Norman J. W., Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 390 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-521-86720-7.)

Görtemaker, Manfred, ed., Britain and Germany in the Twentieth Century. (New York: Berg, 2005. 256 pp. $89.95, isbn 978-1859738429.)

Grandner, Margarete, Dietmar Rothermund, and Wolfgang Schwentker, eds., Globalisierung und Globalgeschichte (Globalization and global history). (Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2005. 240 pp. €15.80, isbn 3854761759.) In German.

Igarashi, Takeshi, ed., Taiheiyo sekai no kokusai kankei (International relations in the Pacific). (Tokyo: Sairyu sha, 2005. 263 pp. ¥3,600, isbn 4882029626.) In Japanese.

Krenn, Michael L., The Color of Empire: Race and American Foreign Relations. (Dulles: Potomac, 2006. xvi, 147 pp. Cloth, $38.00, isbn 978-1-57488-802-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57488-803-4.)

Maeda, Tetsuo, Kakusareta Hibakusha (Hidden victims of the atomic bomb). (Tokyo: Gaifusha, 2005. ¥3,000, isbn 4773629096.) In Japanese.

Metzger, Chantal, and Hartmut Kaelble, eds., Deutschland–Frankreich–Nordamerika: Transfers, Imaginationen, Beziehungen (Germany–France–North America: Transfers, imaginations, relations). (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2006. 227 pp. €42.00, isbn 978-3-515-08926-5.) In German.

Nagata, Akifumi, Nihon no chosen tochi to kokusai kankei (Japanese rule of Korea and international relations). (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2005. 527 pp. ¥7,200, isbn 4582454313.) In Japanese.

Oppenheimer, Andrés, Cuentos chinos: el engaño de Washington y la mentira populista en América Latina (Chinese stories: Washington’s deception and the populist lie in Latin America). (Barcelona: Debate, 2006. 400 pp. isbn 8483066866.) In Spanish.

Palmer, Michael A., The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation. (Dulles: Potomac, 2007. x, 273 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-59797-062-4.)

Pereira, Juan Carlos, ed., Del aislamiento a la apertura: la política exterior de España durante el franquismo. III Jornadas de la Comisión Española de Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales. Universidad de Burgos, octubre 2004 (From isolation to opening: The foreign policy of Spain during the Franco regime. Third conference of the Spanish Commission for the History of International Relations. University of Burgos, October 2004). (Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 2006. isbn 84-611-3898-8.) In Spanish. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Puell de la Villa, Fernando, El desastre de Cuba, 1898: Las Guásimas, el Caney, las Lomas de San Juan (The disaster in Cuba, 1898: Las Guásimas, Caney, Lomas de San Juan). (Madrid: Almena, 2005. 85 pp. €13.00.) In Spanish.

Quang, Le Van, Quan he Viet-My thoi ky sau chien tranh lanh 1990–2000 (Vietnam-U.S. relations in the post-Cold War period [1990–2000]). (Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City Press, 2005. 268 pp. ¥20,000.) In Vietnamese.

Rösch, Christiane, and Uta Balbier, eds., Umworbener Klassenfeind. Das Verhältnis der ddr zu den usa (Coveted class enemy. The relation of the gdr to the usa). (Berlin: Christoph Links, 2006. 279 pp. €24.90, isbn 978-3861534181.) In German.

Sánchez Molina, Raúl, Proceso migratorio de una mujer salvadoreña. El viaje de María Reyes a Washington (The migratory story of a Salvadoran woman. The journey of Maria Reyes to Washington). (Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2006. 135 pp. €11.00, isbn 84-74764092.) In Spanish.

Schildt, Axel, and Detlef Siegfried, eds., Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960–1980. (New York: Berghahn, 2006. 434 pp. $85.00, isbn 1-84545-009-4.)

Serewicz, Lawrence W., America at the Brink of Empire: Rusk, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xii, 233 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3179-4.)

Takahara, Shusuke, Wiruson gaiko to nihon (President Wilson’s foreign policy and Japan). (Tokyo: Sobunsha, 2005. 318 pp. ¥8,000, isbn 4423710676.) In Japanese.

Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta, Markus Hünemörder, and Meike Zwingenberger, eds., Europe and America: Cultures in Translation. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2006. xvi, 210 pp. €38.00, isbn 978-3-8253-5258-5.)

Weber, Maria, Il dragone e l’aquila. Cina e usa. La vera sfida (The dragon and the eagle. China and the United States. The real challenge). (Rome: Università Bocconi Editore, 2006. 176 pp. €14.00, isbn 88-8350-064-4.) In Italian.

Wenger, Andreas, Christian Nuenlist, and Anna Locher, eds., Transforming nato in the Cold War: Challenges beyond Deterrence in the 1960s. (New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv, 251 pp. $120.00, isbn 978-0-415-39737-7.)

Whelan, Bernadette, US Foreign Policy and Ireland: From Empire to Independence, 1913 to 1929. (Dublin: Four Courts, 2006. 614 pp. €65.00, isbn 1-84682-010-3.)

Yamamoto, Yoshinobu, ed., Asia taiheiyo no anzen hosho to Amerika (Security in the Asian Pacific region and America). (Tokyo: Sairyu sha, 2005. 285 pp. ¥3,800, isbn 4882029634.) In Japanese.

 

Lawler, Daniel J., ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 20: Southeast Asia, 1969–1972. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2006. xlviii, 744 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-16-076696-6.)

Mahan, Erin R., ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 12: Soviet Union, January 1969–October 1970. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2006. xxxii, 701 pp. $64.00, isbn 0-16-076698-2.)

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