Pensum/l?ringskrav

Books:

Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 1-33, 69-146, 175-204.

Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2010. Pp. 1-58, 77-221.

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. Pp. 10-119, 185-279.

McMahon, Robert. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 1-168.

Reynolds, David. From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt¡¯s America and the Origins of the Second World War. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. Pp. 12-190.

Tooze, Adam. The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916-1931. London: Allen Lane, 2014. Pp. 50-67, 218-31.

Supplemental readings:

Articles marked with * are printed in a compendium available at Akademika. € are available online.

€ 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.