Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books (required for both 2424 and 4424):

Hunt, Michael H and Steven I. Levine, Arc of Empire: America’s Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Iriye, Akira. The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945. Vol. 3 in The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Hahn, Peter L. Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East since 1945. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005.

McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Rabe, Stephen G. The Killing Zone: the United States Wages Cold War in Latin America. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

 

Supplemental readings required for 4424 only: Articles marked with * are printed in a compendium available at Akademika.

Buzzanco, Robert. “What Happened to the New Left? Toward a Radical Reading of American Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History 23, No. 4 (Fall 1999): 575-607.

*Eisenberg, Carolyn Wood. Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 1-13, 485-93.

Lundestad, Geir. “‘Empire by Invitation’ in the American Century,” Diplomatic History 23, No. 2 (Spring 1999): 189-217.

Perkins, Bradford. “The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: Twenty-Five Years After.” Reviews in American History 12, No. 1 (March 1984): 1-18.

Thompson, J. A. “William Appleman Williams and the ‘American Empire.’” Journal of American Studies 7, No. 1 (April 1973): 91-104.

*Williams, William Appleman. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, fiftieth anniversary edition. 1959, 1972; repr., New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2009. Pp. 27-57, 228-43.

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