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Belevtseva, S. N., “Povorot ot konfrontatsii k sotrudnichestvu v sovetsko-amerikanskikh ontosheniiakh v period vtorogo prezidentstva R. Reigana: Motivy i tseli storon” (Turning from confrontation to cooperation in Soviet-American relations during President Ronald Reagan’s second administration), Vestnik Istorii i Filosofii Kurskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta (Kursk) (no. 1, 2008), 39–50. In Russian.

Belevtseva, S. N., “Pozitsiia Kongressa SShA po probleme prav cheloveka v sovetsko-amerikanskikh ontosheniiakh v period vtorogo prezidentstva R. Reigana” (The U.S. Congress’s position on human rights in Soviet-American relations during President Ronald Reagan’s second administration), Problemy izucheniia i prepodavaniia istorii zarubeznykh stran: Aktual’nye voprosy mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii i vneshnei politiki (Kursk), 6 (2008), 58–87. In Russian.

Blazich, Frank A., Jr., “Accelerated Action: The North Carolina Civil Defense Agency and the Cuban Missile Crisis, October–December 1962,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (Jan. 2009), 59–93.

Boykoff, Jules, “Devil or Democrat? Hugo Chavez and the U.S. Prestige Press,” New Political Science, 31 (March 2009), 3–26.

Burr, William, “Casting a Shadow over Trade: The Problem of Private Claims and Blocked Assets in U.S.-China Relations, 1972–1975,” Diplomatic History, 33 (April 2009), 315–49.

Cárdenas García, Nicolás, “La incómoda herencia de Gruening a Mexico” (Gruening’s inconvenient heritage to Mexico), Secuencia (Mexico City) (no. 69, 2007), 61–84. In Spanish.

Correia, David, “Making Destiny Manifest: United States Territorial Expansion and the Dispossession of Two Mexican Property Claims in New Mexico, 1824–1899,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (Jan. 2009), 87–103 87–103.

Dorn, A. Walter, and Robert Pauk, “Unsung Mediator: U Thant and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Diplomatic History, 33 (April 2009), 261–92.

Dunn, David Hastings, “Innovation and Precedent in the Kosovo War: The Impact of Operation Allied Force on U.S. Foreign Policy,” International Affairs (London), 85 (May 2009), 531–46.

Filimonova, M. A., “‘Ne greki i ne troiantsy’: Amerikanskaia pressa i problema neitraliteta SShA (1793–1794)” (‘Neither Greeks nor Trojans’: The American press and the neutrality question, 1793–1794), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 45–58. In Russian.

Flis, Krysztof, “Amerykanska interwencja w obronie Dien Bien Phu w 1954 roku: Próba nowego spojrzenia” (American intervention in defense of Dien Bien Phu in 1954: A new look), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne (Bialystok) (no. 6, 2008), 197–216. In Polish.

Goldman, Zachary K., “Ties That Bind: John F. Kennedy and the Foundations of the American-Israeli Alliance,” Cold War History (London), 9 (Feb. 2009), 23–58.

Grafa, Kinga, “Walka o ‘serca i umysly: Znaczenie ‘dyplomacji kulturalnej’ jako narzedzia polityki zagranicznej usa w latach 1945–1961” (The struggle for hearts and minds: The significance of ‘cultural diplomacy’ as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy from 1945–1961), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw) (no. 1, 2009), 95–110. In Polish.

Graham, Sarah Ellen, “American Propaganda, the Anglo-American Alliance, and the Delicate Question of Indian Self-Determination,” Diplomatic History, 33 (April 2009), 223–59.

Grinev, A. V., “Geopoliticheskie interesy Rossii v Amerike i na Tikhookeanskom severe: XVIII–pervaia polovina XIX v.” (Geopolitical interests of Russia in America and in the North Pacific: From the 18th to the mid-19th century), Voprosy Istorii (Moscow) (no. 3, 2009), 48–65. In Russian.

Jones, Jerry W., “The Naval Battle of Paris,” Naval War College Review, 62 (Spring 2009), 77–89.

Kalinin, A. A., “Krizis v amerikano-angliiskikh otnosheniiakh po Gretsii v dekabre 1944 g.” (Crisis in Anglo-American relations in Greece, December, 1944), Vestnik Viatskogo Gosudarstvennogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta (Kirov), 4 (2007), 47–57. In Russian.

Kustanovich, K. V., “O nekotorykh tipakh vospriiatiia Ameriki rossiianami” (About some types of Russian perception of America), SShA-Kanada: Economika, Politika, Kul’tura (Moscow) (no. 8, 2008), 89–108. In Russian.

Kuznetsov, D. V., “Voina v Irake i obschchestvennoe mnenie SShA v 2003–2008 gg.” (War in Iraq and the U.S. public opinion, 2003–2008), SShA-Kanada: Economika, Politika, Kul’tura (Moscow) (no. 10, 2008), 25–42. In Russian.

Lemelin, Bernard, “An Isolationist Politician in an Internationalist Era: Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota and the United Nations, 1945–1946,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 37 (no. 2, 2007), 49–82.

Marczewska-Zagdanska, Hanna, “Council on Foreign Relations oraz kwartalnik Foreign Affairs jako forum dyskusyjne, doradcze i opiniotwórcze w amerykanskiej polityce zagranicznej od Woodrow Wilsona do Franklina D. Roosevelta” (The Council of Foreign Relations and the Foreign Affairs quarterly as a discussion and opinion-making forum in American foreign policy, from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw) (no. 1, 2009), 3–21. In Polish.

Mazzenga, Maria, “Condemning the Nazis’ Kristallnacht: Father Maurice Sheeny, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Dissent of Father Charles Coughlin,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Fall 2008), 71–87.

Nuenlist, Christian, “Die westliche Allianz und Chruscevs Aussenpolitik im Jahre 1955” (The western alliance and Khrushchev’s foreign policy in 1955), in Der Warschauer Pakt: Von der Gründung bis zum Zusammenbruch 1955 bis 1991 (The Warsaw Pact: From its founding to its collapse, 1955–1991), ed. Torsten Diedrich, Winifred Heinenmann, and Christian F. Ostermann, 9–26. (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2009. 376 pp. €34.90, isbn 978-3-861-53504-1.) In German.

Palermo, Malena López, “La guerra de 1898 y el imperialismo norteamericano” (The war in 1898 and North American imperialism), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 55–71. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.

Pozzi, Pablo, “Estados Unidos y los orígenes de la Guerra Fría” (United States and the origins of the Cold War), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 265–73. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.

Ravlic, Slaven, “Eponimizacija moci: Americke vanjskopoliticke skole I doctrine” (Eponymy of power: American foreign policy schools and doctrines), Medunarodne studije (Zagreb), 6 (2006), 13–27. In Croatian.

Roberts, Phil, “‘All Americans Are Hero-Worshippers’: American Observations on the First U.S. Visit by a Reigning Monarch, 1876,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (Oct. 2008), 453–78.

Rojo, Alicia, “El imperialismo norteamericano y la guerra de Vietnam” (American imperialism and the Vietnam War), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 317–30. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.

Rojo, Alicia, “Los Estados Unidos y la Segunda Guerra Mundial” (The United States and the second World War), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 207–28. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.

Rouleau, Brian, “Childhood’s Imperial Imagination: Edward Stratemeyer’s Fiction Factory and the Valorization of American Empire,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (Oct. 2008), 479–512.

Siener, William H., “‘A Barricade of Ships, Guns, Airplanes, and Men’: Arming the Niagara Border, 1920–1930,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 38 (Winter 2008), 429–50.

Strauss, Charles T., “God Save the Boer: American Catholics and the South African War, 1899–1902,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Fall 2008), 1–26.

Troitskaia, L. M., “Russkii diplomat P.I. Poletika i ego Zapiska o vnutrennem polozhenii i vneshnei politike SShA (1820)” (Russian diplomat Petr Poletica and his memoir on U.S. domestic affairs and foreign policy (1820)), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 260–86. In Russian.

Urazov, A. M., “Irakskaia revoliutsiia 1958 g. i blizhnevostochnaia politika Vashingtona” (The Iraq revolution of 1958 and U.S. Middle Eastern policy), SShA-Kanada: Economika, Politika, Kul’tura (Moscow) (no. 2, 2009), 90–107. In Russian.

Vernet, Julien, “Petitions from Peripheries of Empire: Louisiana and Québec,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 38 (Winter 2008), 495–512.

Zhuravleva, V. I., “Svet amerikanskoi svobody i ‘imperiia t’my’: Obraz Rossii v kontekste messianskoi idei v SShA” (Light of American liberty and ‘empire of obscurity’: Russia’s image in the context of the Messiah idea in the usa), Novyi Istoricheskii Vestnik (Moscow), 17 (no. 2, 2008), 63–75. In Russian.

 

Barker, Crispin Robert Claude, “From Atom Bomb to the ‘Genetic Time Bomb’: Telomeres, Aging, and Cancer in the Era of Molecular Biology” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317061.

Blomstedt, Larry Wayne, “Truman, Congress, and the Struggle for War and Peace in Korea” (Texas A&M University, 2008). Order No. DA3321646.

Chenicek, Jolynda Brock, “Derelection of Diplomacy: The American Consulates in Paris and Bordeaux during the Napoleonic Era, 1804–1815” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3321466.

Fanning, Sara Connors, “Haiti and the U.S.: African American Emigration and the Recognition Debate” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3311471.

Fu, Wei-Hsin, “Framing Taiwan’s Independence in the Coverage of Taiwan’s Presidential Elections, 1996 to 2004: An Analysis of the U.S. Press” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3319616.

Gurman, Hannah, “The Dissent Papers: The Voice of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317556.

Jacobson, Frances M., “Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy: The Battle for Power and Principle” (Old Dominion University, 2008). Order No. DA3322554.

Jeffries, Fiona E., “Against the New Enclosures: Communicational Insurgencies as Practices of Anti-fear” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR441011.

Kim, Hyun-Wook, “Critical Junctures and Alliance Cohesion: The Post–Cold War U.S.-Korea and U.S.-Japan Alliances” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3318340.

Levshina, O. N., “Retseptsiia amerikanskoi kul’tury Rossii v XVIII–XIX vv” (Reception of American culture in Russia, from the 18th to the 19th centuries) (Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, 2009). In Russian.

Luddington, Peter, “Why the Good War Was Good: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New World Order” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3322085.

Martin, James Walter, IV, “Cultures of Business, Work, and Leisure in the United Fruit Company’s Caribbean, 1880–1940” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3318102.

Shirokov, A. V., “Politika SShA v otnoshenii ates v 1989–2001” (The U.S. policy on the Asian-Pacific economic community, 1989–2001) (Moscow State University, Russia, 2008). In Russian.

Simoni, Serena, “Beyond Paradise and Power: Contending Arguments on the Future of Transatlantic Relations and the West (1991–2001)” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3311162.

Sund, Allona, “Exceptional States: National Esteem and Nonconformity in International Relations” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR39642.

Vue, Douglas Chuedoua, “The Three Eras of Hmong Educational History in Laos: French Colonial, Laotian Indepencence, and usaid, 1917–1975” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3324738.

 

Astié Burgos, Walter, Encuentros y desencuentros entre México y Estados Unidos en el siglo XX: Del porfiriato a la posguerra fria (Agreements and disagreements between Mexico and the United States during the twentieth century: From Porfirio Diaz’s period to the Cold War period). (Mexico City: Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2007. 464 pp. Pesos 340.00, isbn 970-701-874-7.) In Spanish.

Batalov, E. Ia., V. I. Zhuraleva, and K. V. Khzinskaia, “Rychashchii medved” na “Dikon Vostoke”: Obrazy sovremennoi Rossii v rabotakh amerikanskikh avtorov, 1992–2007 (“Roaring bear” in the “wild East”: Perceptions of contemporary Russia in American publications, 1992–2007). (Moscow: Rossiiskaia politicheskaia entsiklopediia (rosspen), 2009. 384 pp. isbn 978-5-8243-1124-2.) In Russian.

Burk, Kathleen, Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America. (London: Abacus, 2007. xviii, 830 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-316-86166-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-349-11919-9.)

Chacón, Susana, La relación entre México y los Estados Unidos (1940–1955): Entre el conflicto y la cooperación (The relationship between Mexico and the United States (1940–1955): Between conflict and cooperation). (México City: Fondo De Cultura Económica, 2009. 232 pp. Pesos 145.00, isbn 978-968-168-4655.) In Spanish.

Cooke, Stephanie, In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009. 488 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-59691-617-3.)

Corzo González, Diana, La política exterior mexicana ante la nueva doctrina Monroe, 1904–1907 (Mexican foreign policy regarding the New Monroe Doctrine, 1904–1907). (Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 2005. 123 pp. Pesos 132.00, isbn 970-684-122-9.) In Spanish.

Diedrich, Torsten, Winifred Heinenmann, and Christian F. Ostermann, eds., Der Warschauer Pakt: Von der Gründung bis zum Zusammenbruch 1955 bis 1991 (The Warsaw Pact: From its founding to its collapse, 1955–1991). (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2009. 376 pp. €34.90, isbn 978-3-861-53504-1.) In German.

Domazet-Loso, Davor, Strategija vucjeg copora ili Tko je Hrvatsku pretvorio u veliko loviste (The strategy of the wolf pack; or, who turned Croatia into a hunting ground). (Zagreb: Detecta, 2008. 434 pp. isbn 978-9-537-47612-0.) In Croatian.

Ellis, Sylvia, Historical Dictionary of Anglo-American Relations. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009. xxviii, 313 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-8108-5564-9.)

Hill, Christopher L., National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4298-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4316-5.)

Hunt, David, Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiv, 272 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-691-0. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-692-7.)

Hunt, Michael H., Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xiv, 261 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-300-13925-9.) Originally published in 1987.

Langley, Lester D., Simón Bolívar: Venezuelan Rebel, American Revolutionary. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xxvi, 139 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7425-3752-1.)

Levin Rojo, Danna A., and Martha Ortega, eds., El territorio disputado en la guerra de 1846–1848 (The disputed territory during the 1846–1848 war). (Oaxaca de Juarez: Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, 2007. 236 pp. Pesos 230.00, isbn 978-970-701-976-8.) In Spanish.

Lewis, James A., The Spanish Convoy of 1750: Heaven’s Hammer and International Diplomacy. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xxii, 157 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-8130-3358-7.)

McDonald, Patrick J., The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, the War Machine, and International Relations Theory. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 338 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-76136-9. Paper, $26.99, isbn 978-0-521-74412-6.)

McGrath, James, ed., Age of the Offered Hand: The Cross-Border Partnership between President George H. W. Bush and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; a Documentary History. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. 144 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-553-39232-3.)

Milnes, Arthur, ed., In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow: A Collection in Honour of the 70th Anniversary of fdr’s 1938 Speech at Queen’s University and Marking Canada’s Special Relationship with America’s Presidents, 1938 to Present Day. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. 144 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-553-39230-9.)

Nakic, Mladen, Americka politika izmedu hladnog rata i vruceg mira: Unilaterizam i preventivni ratovi (American politics between Cold War and hot peace: Unilateralism and preventative wars). (Zagreb: Politicka kultura, 2009. 264 pp. isbn 978-9-532-58031-0.) In Croatian.

Preble, Christopher A., The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvi, 212 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8014-4765-5.)

Rees, Laurence, World War II behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis, and the West. (New York: Pantheon, 2008. 442 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-307-37730-2.)

Ryan, David, and Patrick Kiely, eds., America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention, and Regional Politics since 1958. (London: Routledge, 2009. 268 pp. $140.00, isbn 978-0-415-46621-9.)

Tovell, Freeman M., At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. (Vancouver: ubc Press, 2008. 400 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-774-81367-9.)

Veledar, Aladin, America i teror (America and terror). (Mostar: IC Stamparija, 2009. 158 pp. isbn 978-9-958-91054-8.) In Bosnian.

 

Breitman, Richard, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg, eds., Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935–1945. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii, 359 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-253-35307-8.)

Kunitake, Kume, comp., Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the usa and Europe, 1871–1873, ed. Chushichi Tsuzuki and R. Jules Young. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxx, 528 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-51385-2. Paper, $29.99, isbn 978-0-521-73516-2.) Originally published in Japanese in 1878.

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