Recent Scholarship
International Relations
Allerfeldt, Kristofer, “Rejecting the United States of the World: The Consequences of Woodrow Wilson’s New Diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 145–65.
Bieluk, Halina, “Peace Corps: Misja ‘wielkiej integracji’ Johna F. Kennedy’ ego” (Peace Corps: A part of John F. Kennedy’s mission of the ‘great integration’), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 5, 2007), 199–215. In Polish.
Bing, Albert, “Sjedinjene Americke Države I reintegracija hrvatskog Podunavlja” (The United States of America and the reintegration of the Croatian Danube Region), Scrinia Slavonica Godišnjak Podružnice za povijest Slavonije, Srijema I Baranje Hrvatskog instituta za povijest (Slavonski Brod), 8 (2008), 336–65. In Croatian.
Bruscino, Thomas A., Jr., “A Troubled Past: The Army and Security on the Mexican Border, 1915–1917,” Military Review, 88 (July–Aug. 2008), 31–44.
Cumming, Anthony J., “We’ll Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends: The Battle of Britain and the Pilot in Anglo-American Relations, 1940–45,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 1, 2007), 11–26.
Deocampo, Nick, “Cinema and Colonization: American Colonization and the Rise of Cinema in the Philippines,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 147–71.
Dominguez, Virginia R., “When the Enemy Is Unclear: U.S. Censuses and Photographs of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines from the Beginning of the 20th Century,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 173–203.
Flippen, J. Brooks, “Richard Nixon, Russell Train, and the Birth of Modern American Environmental Diplomacy,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 613–38.
Friedman, Max Paul, “Anti-Americanism and U.S. Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 497–514.
Harris, Susan K., “Kipling’s ‘The White Man’s Burden’ and the British Newspaper Context, 1898–1899,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Sept. 2007), 243–63.
Hilton, Sylvia L., “The World in Black and White: Spanish Federalists on U.S. Democracy and Imperialism in 1898,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 119–46.
Jang, Jun-Kab, “Kennedy Hangjeongbueui Daehan Jeongchak, 1961–1963: Gansub Inga Hyupruk Inga?” (The Kennedy Administration’s Korea policy, 1961–1963: Intervention or cooperation?), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 25 (May 2007), 133–57. In Korean.
Jang, Jun-Kab, “Migunjeongeui Jeju 4.3 Sagone Daehan Daeung: Pokrukgua Haksalui Jeonjugok” (U.S. military government in Korea’s action against Jeju 4.3 incident: Prelude to violence and genocide), Jeonbuk Sahak/The Jeonbuk Historical Journal (Chonju-si), 31 (Oct. 2007), 205–26. In Korean.
Jang, Jun-Kab, “Nixon Doctrinegua Migukeui Daehan Jeongchak” (Nixon Doctrine and Korean–American relations), Yoksahak Yongu (Gwangju), 34 (Oct. 2008), 229–49. In Korean.
Kim, Yuon-Jin, “Hangukgwa Migukui Mannam: Ijungjeok Mannamui Yeoksa” (Korea meets the United States: A history of duality), Sahakji/Korean Journal of History (Seoul), 39 (Aug. 2008), 105–33. In Korean.
Kochavi, Noam, “Joining the Conservative Brotherhood: Israel, President Nixon, and the Political Consolidation of the ‘Special Relationship’, 1969–73,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Nov. 2008), 449–80.
Laffey, Mark, and Jutta Weldes, “Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis,” International Studies Quarterly, 52 (Sept. 2008), 555–77.
Lansford, Tom, “Pragmatic Idealism: Truman’s Broader Middle East Policy,” in Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Michael J. Devine, Robert P. Watson, and Robert J. Wolz, 28–41. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 121 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-80-2.)
Laville, Helen, “Protecting Difference or Promoting Equality? U.S. Government Approaches to Women’s Rights and the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, 1945–50,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Sept. 2007), 291–305.
Levey, Zach, “Anatomy of an Airlift: United States Military Assistance to Israel during the 1973 War,” Cold War History (London), 8 (Nov. 2008), 481–501.
Luconi, Stefano, “Presentazione: Stati Uniti, Canada, e Australia” (Preface: United States, Canada, and Australia), Altreitalie (Turin), 36–37 (Jan.–Dec. 2008), 267–74. In Italian.
Martínez, Oscar J., “Border Conflict, Border Fences, and the ‘Tortilla Curtain’ Incident of 1978–1979,” Journal of the Southwest, 50 (Autumn 2008), 263–78.
Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu, “What T. R. Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903–1937,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 680–721.
Mawdsley, Evan, “Anti-German Insurgency and Allied Grand Strategy,” Journal of Strategic Studies (London), 31 (Oct. 2008), 695–719.
Popp, Roland, “An Application of Modernization Theory during the Cold War? The Case of Pahlavi Iran,” International History Review (Burnaby), 30 (March 2008), 76–98.
Ramet, P. Sabrina, “Priznati ili ne priznati: Politika Sjedinjenih Americkih Država prema Hrvatskoj, 1990–1991” (To recognize or not: The policy of the United States toward Croatia, 1990–1991), Casopis za suvremenu povijest Hrvatski institut za povijest (Zagreb), 40 (no. 1, 2008), 141–59. In Croatian.
Rzepecka, Marta, “American Foreign Policy during the Cold War: From Moralism to Realism,” in U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory, Mechanisms, Practice, ed. Andrzej Mania, Pawel Laidler, and Lukasz Wordliczek, 319–30. (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2007. 565 pp. zl. 30.00, isbn 978-83-233-2485-0.)
Surwillo, Lisa, “Poetic Diplomacy: Carolina Coronado and the American Civil War,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 409–22.
Toong, Zi Jun, “Overthrown by the Press: The U.S. Media’s Role in the Fall of Diem,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 56–72.
Trani, Eugene P., and Donald E. Davis, “Roosevelt and the U.S. Role: Perception Makes Policy,” in The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies, ed. Steven Ericson and Allen Hockley, 62–74. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. x, 249 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-722-4.)
Yang, Hong-Seuk, “Gaehanggi Han-Mi Ganeal Chiaebergeun Sarae Bunseurk” (A case study about the American enforcement of extraterritoriality), The Donghark Youn Gu (Seoul), 24 (March 2008), 83–113. In Korean.
Asgarov, Asgar M., “Reporting from the Frontlines of the First Cold War: American Diplomatic Despatches about the Internal Conditions in the Soviet Union, 1917–1933” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297340.
Barreto, Norberto, “Imperial Thoughts: The U.S. Congress and the Philippine Questions, 1898–1934” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3299701.
Domber, Gregory F., “Supporting the Revolution: America, Democracy, and the End of the Cold War in Poland, 1981–1989” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295049.
Fields, Jeffrey, “Adversaries and Statecraft: Explaining U.S. Foreign Policy toward Rogue States” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291883.
Hernández, José Angel, “Lost Mexico, Forgotten Mexico, and Mexico Beyond: A History of Mexican American Colonization, 1836–1892” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300435.
Lepler, Jessica M., “1837: Anatomy of a Panic” (Brandeis University, 2007). Order No. DA3290956.
McCullough, Stephen, “Foreshadowing of Informal Empire: Ulysses S. Grant and Hamilton Fish’s Caribbean Policy, 1869–1877” (University of Alabama, 2007). Order No. DA3293003.
McGrath, Kevin, “Sheathing the Sword of Damocles: Assessing Al Qaeda and Devising a U.S. Response” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297316.
Mocnik, Josip, “United States–Yugoslav Relations, 1961–1980: The Twilight of Tito’s Era and the Role of Ambassadorial Diplomacy in the Making of America’s Yugoslav Policy” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3301774.
Phelps, Nicole Marie, “Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the New Liberal Order: U.S.-Habsburg Relations and the Transformation of International Politics, 1880–1924” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3302313.
Sheehan, Carrie C., “Securitizing the hiv/aids pandemic in U.S. Foreign Policy” (American University, 2008). Order No. DA3302229.
Sulaiman, Yohanes, “The Banteng and the Eagle: Indonesian Foreign Policy and the United States during the Era of Sukarno, 1945–1967” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3300124.
Wang, Doug, “From Enmity to Rapprochement: Grand Strategy, Power Politics, and U.S.-China Relations, 1961–1974” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3295737.
Zambrano Uzcategui, Nahirana Teresa, “Images of the Other, Narratives of the Self: Representations of Venezuela in the U.S. Printed Press, 1982–2002” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3291568.
Ali, S. Mahmud, U.S.-China Relations in the ”Asia-Pacific” Century. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xvi, 268 pp. $79.95, isbn 978-0-230-60455-1.)
Ara, Konomi, and Eiko Ikui, eds., Amerika kenkyu no ekkyo, vol. 6: Bunka no juyo to henbo (Transboundary American studies, vol.6: Reception and transformation of cultures). (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2007. 424 pp. ¥4410, isbn 4-6230-4945-5.) In Japanese.
Buhite, Russell D., Douglas MacArthur: Statecraft and Stagecraft in America’s East Asian Policy. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xiv, 189 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4425-3. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4426-0.)
Carr, Matthew, The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. (New York: New Press, 2008. 410 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-1-59558-179-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-59558-408-3.)
Dwyer, John J., The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 387 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4295-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4309-7.)
Ericson, Steven, and Allen Hockley, eds., The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. x, 249 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-722-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Ghani, Ashraf, and Clare Lockhart, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 254 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-534269-7.)
Hanhimäki, Jussi M., The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 171 pp. Paper, $11.95, isbn 978-0-19-530437-4.)
Hitchcock, William I., The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe. (New York: Free Press, 2008. xii, 446 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-7432-7381-7.)
Kan, Hideki, Amerika no sekaisenryaku (Global strategy of the United States). (Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, 2008. 238 pp. ¥819, isbn 4-1210-1937-0.) In Japanese.
Kim, Youn-Jin, Syegyesokui Hanguk (Korea in the wider world). (Seoul: Dankook University Press, 2008. 375 pp. Paper, Won 12,000, isbn 978-89-7092-393-2.) In Korean.
Kisztelinska-Wegrzynska, Agnieszka, rfn w pogladach i dyplomacji Johna Fostera Dullesa, 1953–1959 (John Foster Dulles’s views on and diplomacy toward the Federal Republic of Germany, 1953–1959). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2008. 257 pp. zl. 27.60, isbn 978-83-7441-905-5.) In Polish.
Kusama, Hidezaburo, Nichibei sogo imeji no hensen (Transition of mutual images between Japan and the United States). (Tokyo: Nanso sha, 2008. 200 pp. ¥1995, isbn 4-8165-0364-1.) In Japanese.
Mania, Andrzej, Pawel Laidler, and Lukasz Wordliczek, eds., U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory, Mechanisms, Practice. (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2007. 565 pp. zl. 30.00, isbn 978-83-233-2485-0.)
Marszalek-Kawka, J., and S. Wojciechowski, eds., Spotkania polsko-amerykanskie (Polish-American encounters). (Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 2008. 329 pp. zl. 34.50, isbn 978-83-744-1878-2.) In Polish.
Minohara, Toshihiro, Kariforuniashu no hainichi undo to nichibei kankei (The anti-Japanese movement in California and U.S.-Japan relations). (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2006. 204 pp. ¥4725, isbn 4-6411-9978-7.) In Japanese.
Miura, Nobutaka, and Yuko Matsumoto, eds., Gurobaruka to bunka no odan (Globalization and the crossing of cultures). (Tokyo: Chuo University Press, 2007. 400 pp. ¥4515, isbn 4-8057-6169-4.) In Japanese.
Nakatani, Yoshikazu, Gurobaruka to amerika no hegemoni (Globalization and hegemony of the U.S.A.). (Kyoto: Horitsubunkasha, 2008. 185 pp. ¥4200, isbn 4-0890-3093-1.) In Japanese.
Raczkiewicz, Marek, Doktryna Trumana: Aspekt grecki (The Greek angle on the Truman Doctrine). (Lódz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego, 2008. 144 pp. zl. 19.00, isbn 978-83-752-5142-5.) In Polish.
Rosen, Fred, ed., Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xviii, 263 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4255-7. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4278-6.)
Saiu, Liliana, ed., Stati Uniti e Italia nel Mediterraneo: Operazioni di pace e di guerra (The United States and Italy in the Mediterranean: Peace and war operations). (Milan: Angeli, 2008. 240 pp. €19.00, isbn 978-88-46492-87-6.) In Italian.
Seib, Philip, The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics. (Dulles: Potomac, 2008. xii, 227 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-59797-200-0.)
Sugita, Yoneyuki, ed., Ajiataiheiyo chiiki ni okeru heiwakochiku (Constructing peace in the Asia-Pacific region). (Tokyo: Kyoiku shuppan, 2007. 263 pp. ¥2940, isbn 4-8873-0759-4.) In Japanese.
Sugita, Yoneyuki, ed., Amerika “teikoku” no ushinawareta haken (America’s lost hegemony). (Tokyo: Sanwa shoseki, 2007. 407 pp. ¥3675, isbn 4-8625-1022-8.) In Japanese.
Szlajfer, Henryk, Ku wielkiej zmianie: Korespondencja miedzy Ambasada prl w Waszyngtonie a Ministerstwem Spraw Zagranicznych, stycen-pazdziernik 1989 (On the way to a great change: The correspondence between the Embassy of the Polish People’s Republic in Washington, D.C. and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January–October 1989). (Warszawa: Instytut Studiów Politycznych pan, 2008. 242 pp. zl. 20.00, isbn 978-83-60580-17-2.) In Polish.
Tablit, Ali, El asra El-American fi El Djazair (The American captives at Algiers, 1785–1797). (Algiers: Thala Editions, 2008. 326 pp. A.D.450, isbn 978-9961-905-99-9.) In Arabic.
Takahashi, Hiroko, Fuinsareta Hiroshima/ Nagasaki (Classified Hiroshima and Nagasaki). (Tokyo: Gaifusha, 2008. 285 pp. ¥3150, isbn 4-7736-3208-8.) In Japanese.
Takamitsu, Yoshie, Amerika to senkanki no higashi ajia (The United States and East Asia in the interwar years). (Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2008. 206 pp. ¥3570, isbn 4-7872-2026-4.) In Japanese.
Vantaggio, Valentina, La seduzione del pavone: Le origini dell’alleanza tra Stati Uniti e Iran (1941–1949) (The seduction of the peacock: The origins of the U.S.-Iran alliance, 1941–1949). (Lecce: Icaro Libreria, 2008. 272 pp. €18.00, isbn 88-9537-711-7.) In Italian.
Yamazumi, Toru, Amerika gaiko to senkanki no kokumushokanryo (U.S. diplomacy and bureaucracy of the Department of State in the interwar years). (Tokyo: Ashi shobo, 2007. 358 pp. ¥2625, isbn 4-7556-1213-8.) In Japanese.
Best, Antony, et al., eds., International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond. (New York: Routledge, 2008. xxiv, 613 pp. Cloth, $140.00, isbn 978-0-415-43895-7. Paper, $37.95, isbn 978-0-415-43896-4.) Second edition; revised and expanded.
Filkins, Dexter, The Forever War. (New York: Knopf, 2008. x, 368 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-307-26639-2.)
Gorbachevsky, Boris, Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier’s War on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945, trans. Stuart Britton. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxii, 453 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1605-3.)
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