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301. The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective

Author

E. Bradford Burns, Walter LaFeber, and Paul B. Ryan

Subjects
Panama canal, Archeology, History, media_common.quotation_subject, Political science, Museology, Perspective (graphical), Development economics, Economic history, Diplomacy, media_common
Published
1978
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303. The Constitution and United States Foreign Policy: An Interpretation

Author

Walter LaFeber

Subjects
International relations, History, medicine.medical_specialty, Federalist, Constitution, media_common.quotation_subject, Power (social and political), History and Philosophy of Science, National Security Council, Foreign policy, Political science, Law, Limited government, medicine, Foreign relations, media_common
Abstract

Perhaps the best single sentence defining the Constitution was, appropriately, penned by the "father" of the document in 1792. In such "charters of liberty" as the Constitution, James Madison wrote, "every word ... decides a question between power and liberty." He hoped that "being republicans," Americans would be "anxious to establish the efficacy of popular charters, in defending liberty against power, and power against licentiousness." Some one hundred eighty years later, while writing one of the few extended analyses of the relationship between the Constitution and foreign policy, Louis Henkin noted that in one critical area Madison's insight had been tragically neglected. No greater power existed than the American, and specifically the president's, ability to destroy all civilization, but books "that deal with the Constitution say little about American foreign relations," Henkin lamented, and those dealing with foreign policy have "roundly ignored" the "controlling relevance of the Constitution."' In truth, the neglect of the connection between foreign affairs and constitutional principles is relatively new. From the time of the Federalist, whose opening essays stressed the foreign policy problems that threatened the new nation's liberties and security, and of the 1792-1793 Hamilton-Madison debate over the president's powers in the global arena, through the bitter "imperialist" versus "anti-imperialist" confrontations of 1898-1900, Americans argued over appropriate foreign policy while keeping the Constitution closely in view, and they fought over constitutional principles with acute awareness of their effect on international affairs. By World War II, however, the debate had dramatically changed. Scholars led by Edward S. Corwin repeatedly raised the danger of conducting foreign policy without due regard for constitutional restraints, but Congress, the courts, and, above all, the executive ignored the warnings. In the top secret National Security Council document NSC 68 of April 1950, which became the blueprint for United States policy thereafter, the Truman administration argued that "the integrity of our system will not be

Published
1987
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305. Roots of War

Author

Walter LaFeber and Richard J. Barnet

Subjects
History, Index (economics), History and Philosophy of Science, Economic history, Table (landform), Law and economics
Published
1973
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309. The Background of Cleveland's Venezuelan Policy: A Reinterpretation

Author

Walter LaFeber

Subjects
Reinterpretation, Archeology, History, Latin Americans, media_common.quotation_subject, Museology, Context (language use), Politics, State (polity), Depression (economics), Argument, Political economy, Administration (government), media_common
Abstract

THE policy that Grover Cleveland's second administration formulated in the Venezuelan controversy of I895-I896 was a direct answer to British encroachments on United States interests in Latin America. Political and business leaders believed these American interests to be economic, strategic, and political. The economic influence on the shaping of Cleveland's policy in this dispute has not received sufficient attention. After the I893 depression paralyzed the domestic economy, United States attention focused increasingly on Latin America; indeed, it is significant that the controversy occurred during the depths of that business crisis. American interests, both economic and strategic, were threatened during the I893-I895 period by ominous British moves in Brazil, Nicaragua, the disputed area in Venezuela itself, and the small island of Trinidad off the Brazilian coast. During the same years Germany and France menaced United States advantages in Brazil and the Caribbean. Gravely concerned, the State Department finally forced a showdown struggle on the issue of the Venezuelan boundary. By successfully limiting British claims in this incident, the United States won explicit recognition of its dominant position in the Western Hemisphere. This essay attempts to trace two developments: that international dangers motivated the Cleveland administration in formulating its Venezuelan policy; that the economic crisis arising out of the i893 depression provided the context and played an important role in this policy formulation. ITis is not to say that the economic influence was the only motivating force, but that this factor, relatively overlooked by previous writers on the subject, greatly shaped the thinking of both the Cleveland administration and key segments of American society. Five considerations should serve to establish the validity of this interpretation: timing played a key role in that the year I895 witnessed a convergence of forces which brought the United States into the controversy (after the argument had simmered over half a century) and led it to assert control over the nations of the Western Hemisphere; the Cleveland administration

Published
1961
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320. A Guerra Fria na historiografia revisionista: a política externa dos Estados Unidos com a China, 1890-1909

Author

Flavio Alves Combat

Subjects
Guerra Fria, China, revisionismo, anticolonialismo, Open Door Policy, Latin America. Spanish America, F1201-3799, Social sciences (General), H1-99
Abstract

O objetivo do artigo é analisar a condução da política externa estadunidense com a China, entre 1890 e 1909, tomando como referencial a interpretação historiográfica dos autores revisionistas William Appleman Williams e Walter LaFeber. Propõe-se que o “anticolonialismo imperial” engendrado pelos Estados Unidos no processo de disputa pela abertura do mercado chinês está na origem dos conflitos com as tradicionais potências imperialistas. O trabalho explora, portanto, a tese historiográfica revisionista segundo a qual a política externa norte-americana radicada nos princípios da “Open Door Policy” é fundamental para a compreensão de antagonismos que contribuíram para a Guerra Fria. Abstract The aim of the article is to analyze the conduct of US foreign policy with China between 1890 and 1909, taking as reference the historiographical interpretation of the revisionist authors William Appleman Williams and Walter LaFeber. It is proposed that the "imperial anticolonialism" engendered by the United States in the process of dispute over the opening of the Chinese market is at the origin of conflicts with the traditional imperialist powers. The paper thus explores the revisionist historiographical thesis that US foreign policy rooted in the principles of the Open Door Policy is fundamental to understanding the antagonisms that contributed to the Cold War. Resumen El objetivo del artículo es analizar la conducción de la política exterior estadounidense con China, entre 1890 y 1909, tomando como referencial la interpretación historiográfica de los autores revisionistas William Appleman Williams y Walter LaFeber. Se propone que el "anticolonialismo imperial" engendrado por Estados Unidos en el proceso de disputa por la apertura del mercado chino es el origen de los conflictos con las tradicionales potencias imperialistas. El trabajo explora, por lo tanto, la tesis historiográfica revisionista según la cual la política exterior norteamericana radicada en los principios de la "Open Door Policy" es fundamental para la comprensión de antagonismos que contribuyeron a la Guerra Fría

Published
2018

321. An overview of Central America.

Author

La Feber, Walter

Subjects
PUBLISHED reprints, POPULATION
Abstract

The article presents a reprint of the article "An overview of Central America," which appeared in the book "Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America," by Walter LaFeber. The article examines the importance of five nations of Central America, namely, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, for the U.S. The region has received investments from North America. Information is given on the population, area, economy, and per capita income of these nations.

Published
1983
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322. Over there.

Author

Wright, Esmond

Subjects
*BOOKS
Abstract

Presents a review of the four volumes of `The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations.' `The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865,' by Bradford Perkins; `The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913,' by Walter LaFeber; `The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945,' by Akira Iriye; `America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991,' by Warren I. Cohen.

Published
1995

323. Foreign Policy Continuity: War Finds Us

Author

ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, Kaplan, Lawrence, ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, and Kaplan, Lawrence

Abstract

In recent months, a chorus has emerged to blame (or credit) President Barack Obama for sustaining many of the signature national security policies of his predecessor, President George W. Bush. Yet anyone puzzled by the similarities between the foreign and defense polices of Presidents Bush and Obama would do well to cast a glance backward, for this is hardly the first time we have heard such complaints. During the Cold War, and even before, a revisionist critique of American national security policy gained traction on the political left and, in some instances, among conservatives as well (interwar isolationists on the right, for example). Writers and historians like Charles Beard and, during the Vietnam-era in particular, William Appleman Williams and Walter LaFeber, offered up relentless denunciations of policymakers who, as Williams put it in his classic book, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, "defined safety in terms of conquest-or at any rate domination." Far from chalking up this propensity to current events, the revisionist school traced a pattern of American militarism all the way back to the nation's founding. Thusly defined, it did not matter who presided over U.S. foreign policy. The revisionists insisted, with a Marxian tinge, that America's foreign and military policies operated on autopilot. Prosperity, idealism, open markets, consumption, geopolitical heft, sheer avarice? the revisionists did not always agree on what accounted for the continuities in U.S. foreign policy, but they did agree that almost nothing would budge its course. With respect to the post-war era, their analyses do not stand the test of time. They fundamentally misread and misconstrued the foundation of U.S. national security policy from 1947 to 1990, attributing far greater significance to America's supposed appetite for expansion than it deserved, and all but ignoring the thermonuclear contest in which the United States had become trapped.

Published
2010

324. Latin America, Europe and the United States, 1830–1930.

Abstract

An invaluable guide with over 11,000 listings is David F. Trask, Michael C. Meyer and Roger R. Trask (eds.), A Bibliography of United States–Latin American Relations since 1810 (Lincoln, Nebr., 1968). See also Michael C. Meyer (ed.), Supplement to a Bibliography of United States–Latin American Relations since 1810 (Lincoln, Nebr., 1979). Several countries have guides to the secondary literature for their diplomatic history. One of the best is Daniel Cosío Villegas, Cuestiones internacionales de México (Mexico, D.F., 1966). A good overall introduction to the history of the international relations of Latin America is Harold Eugene David, John J. Finan and F. Taylor Peck, Latin American Diplomatic History: An Introduction (Baton Rouge, La., 1977). A more theoretical analysis of the international dilemma of Latin America is Leopoldo Zea, Latin America and the World, translated by Frances Hendricks and Beatrice Berler (Norman, Okla., 1969). This should be read in conjunction with another classic interpretation: Arthur P. Whitaker, The Western Hemisphere Idea: Its Rise and Decline (Ithaca, N.Y., 1954). For questions of international organization and law, see John C. Dreir et al., International Organization in the Western Hemisphere (Syracuse, N.Y., 1968), and C. Neale Ronning, Law and Politics in Inter-American Diplomacy (New York, 1963). For a more detailed presentation of United States relations with Latin America, see Graham Stuart and James Tigner, Latin America and the United States, 6th ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1975). See also Gordon Connell-Smith, The United States and Latin America: An Historical Analysis of Inter-American Relations (London, 1974) and, a more general treatment from a different perspective, Lloyd C. Gardner, Walter LaFeber and T. McCormick, The Creation of the Modern American Empire: U.S. Diplomatic History (London, 1973), as well as the various works of William Appleman Williams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1995
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325. Of Centaurs And Doves : Guatemala's Peace Process

Author

Susanne Jonas and Susanne Jonas

Subjects
Human rights--Guatemala--History, Negotiation--Guatemala--History
Abstract

'In a century of horrors, Guatemala from 1954 to the present has been a bloody scene of some of the worst horrors—and the United States has been deeply involved. Drawing upon 30 years of experience in Central America, hundreds of interviews, and analyses of the vast documentary materials, Susanne Jonas masterfully explains not only how the Guatemalan tragedies, the U.S. involvement, and the stumbling 1990s peace process developed. She also raises fundamental questions about the badly misunderstood and much over-hyped'democratic transition'supposedly occurring in Guatemala and elsewhere in the region.'—Walter LaFeber Cornell University, author of Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

Published
2018

327. Book Reviews

Author

Feldman, Louis H., Ross, Andrew C., Contreni, John J., Arnold, Benjamin, Riley-Smith, Jonathan, Edbury, Peter, Pennington, Kenneth, Dutra, Francis A., Kirshner, Julius, Santosuosso, Antonio, Persson, Karl Gunnar, Kicza, John E., Buckley, Roger, Shannon, Timothy J., Morgan, Kenneth, De Moor, J. A., Grenier, John, Pearson, M. N., Andrien, Kenneth J., Emmer, Pieter, Carson, Penelope, Clark, J. C. D., Rhinelander, Anthony, Kaplan, Lawrence S., Milobar, K. David, Barker, Hannah, Gascoigne, John, Webb, Paul, Mcmahon, Deirdre, Barber, Malcolm C., Schenk, Catherine R., Barker, Anthony J., Clements, Kendrick A., Woodward, Ralph Lee, Callaway, Helen, Mann, Gregory, Kivisto, Peter, Smil, Vaclav, Pentland, Charles C., Höbelt, Lothar, Beckett, Ian F. W., Eksteins, Modris, Hamilton, C. I., Cell, John W., Davies, R. W., Carley, Michael Jabara, Dukes, Paul, El Khazen, Farid, Lambelet, Jean-Christian, Goda, Norman J. W., Ansari, Sarah, Mcmahon, Robert J., Elleman, Bruce A., Balfour-Paul, Glen, Young, John W., Dooley, Howard, Priest, Tyler, Laracy, Hugh, Castle, Timothy N., Dorn, Glenn J., Dobson, Alan P., Park, Choon-Ho, Tal, David, Buszynski, Leszek, Shearman, Peter, Petersen, Roger, Lawson, Fred H., Brown, Macalister, Fouskas, Vassilis, Healy, Chris, Mason, T. David, Falk, Richard, Darwin, John G., Lauren, Paul Gordon, Nolan, Cathal J., and Lafeber, Walter

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MOSHE ABERBACH and DAVID ABERBACH. The Roman–Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 170. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman.MOSHE ABERBACH and DAVID ABERBACH. The Roman–Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 170. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman.BENGT SUNDKLER and CHRISTOPHER STEED. A History of the Church in Africa.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 1,232. $140.00 (us). Reviewed by Andrew C. Ross.TIMOTHY REUTER, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History:III: c. 900–c. 1024.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 863. $110.00 (us). Reviewed by John J. Contreni.JOSEPH P. HUFFMAN. The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo–German Relations (1066–1307).Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. x, 361. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Benjamin Arnold.ROBERT CHAZAN. God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives.Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 270. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith.BERNARD HAMILTON. The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxv, 288. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Peter Edbury.LAURIE SHEPARD. Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century.New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1999. Pp. xxii, 240. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth Pennington.PETER RUSSELL. Prince Henry ‘the Navigator’: A Life.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 448. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Francis A. Dutra.CHRISTINE SHAW. The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 257. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Julius Kirshner.DANIELA FRIGO, ed. Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy: The Structure of Diplomatic Practice, 1450–1800,trans. Adrian Belton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. v, 262. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Antonio Santosuosso.LEE A. CRAIG and DOUGLAS FISHER. The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration, and Cycles, 1500–1913.Cheltenham and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xii, 389. $120.00 (us). Reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson.IDA ALTMAN. Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560–1620.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 254. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by John E. Kicza.IAN NISH and YOICHI KIBATA, eds., with assistance from TADASHI KURAMATSU. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations:I: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600–1930.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xiii, 282. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Roger Buckley.KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America.Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 297. $17.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Timothy J. Shannon.DAVID ELTIS. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 353. $59.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan.PHILIP D. CURTIN. The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 294. $27.95 (us). Reviewed by J. A. De Moor.WILLIAM R. NESTER. The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607–1775.Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xiii, 326. $69.50 (us); WILLIAM R. NESTER. The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756–1775.Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. ix, 308. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by John Grenier.GLENN J. AMES. Renascent Empire? The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, c. 1640–1683.Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000; dist. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 262. $34.50 (us). Reviewed by M. N. Pearson.PETER T. BRADLEY and DAVID CAHILL. HabsburgPeru: Images, Imagination, and Memory.Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xii, 167. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth J. Andrien.KLAUS J. BADE. Europa in Bewegung: Migration vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart.Munich: C. H. Beck, 2000. Pp. 510. DM 58.90. Reviewed by Pieter Emmer.D. DENNIS HUDSON. Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706–1835.Grand Rapids and Richmond, UK: William B. Eerdman's and Curzon Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 220. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Penelope Carson.ROBIN EAGLES. Francophilia in English Society, 1748–1815.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. x, 229. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark.NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV. Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760–1819.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxi, 197. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Rhinelander.H. W. BRANDS. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin.New York: Doubleday, 2000; dist. Toronto: Random House. Pp. vi, 759. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan.ELIGA H. GOULD. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution.Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xxiv, 262. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by K. David Milobar.STUART ANDREWS. The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789–99.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xi, 280. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Hannah Barker.ANNE-MAREE WHITAKER. Joseph Foveaux: Power and Patronage in Early New South Wales.Sydney: University of New Soudi Wales Press, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. viii, 257. $29.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by John Gascoigne.STEVEN E. MAFFEO. Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson.Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Pp. xxvii, 355. $32.95 (us). Reviewed by Paul Webb.STEPHEN HOWE. Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 334. £25.00. Reviewed by Deirdre Mcmahon.ELIZABETH SIBERRY. The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii, 228. $79.95 (us). Reviewed by Malcolm C. Barber.DAVID R. MEYER. Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 272. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk.CLARE ANDERSON. Convicts in the Indian Ocean: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815–53.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xii, 192. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony J. Barker.PATRICIA LEE SYKES. Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xiii, 399. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Kendrick A. Clements.OLIVER MARSHALL, ed. English-Speaking Communities in Latin America.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxviii, 387. $79.95 (us). Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr..CHERYL MCEWAN. Gender, Geography, and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in West Africa.Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. ix, 250. $74.95 (us). Reviewed by Helen Callaway.OWEN WHITE. Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, i895–1960.New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 200. $116.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Gregory Mann.JULIANNA PUSKÁS. Ties that Bind, Ties that Divide: 100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States,trans. Zora Ludwig. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 2000. Pp. xix, 444. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Kivisto.J. R. MCNEILL. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World.New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 421. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Vaclav Smil.LUCIAN M. ASHWORTH. Creating International Studies: Angell, Mitrany, and the Liberal Tradition.Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. vii, 200. $65.95 (us). Reviewed by Charles C. Pentland.MARK CORNWALL. The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xvi, 485. $50.00 (us). Reviewed by.ROGER CHICKERING and STIG FÖRSTER, eds. Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 531. $54.95 (us). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett.VEJAS GABRIEL LIULEVICIUS. War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 309. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Modris Eksteins.CHRISTOPHER M. BELL. The Royal Navy, Seapower, and Strategy between the Wars.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 232. $51.00 (us). Reviewed by C. I. Hamilton.JOHN SMITH, ed. Administering Empire: The British Colonial Service in Retrospect.London: University of London Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 350. £22.50. Reviewed by John W. Cell.DAVID R. STONE. Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926–1933.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. vii, 287. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by R. W. Davies.JULIAN BULLARD and MARGARET BULLARD, eds. Inside Stalin's Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930–1934.Charlbury, Oxfordshire: Day Books, 2000. Pp. x, 310. £19.50. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley.ROBERT W. THURSTON and BERND BONWETSCH, eds. The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union.Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000; dist: Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 275. $65.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Paul Dukes.EYAL ZISSER. Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence.London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. xiii, 297. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Farid El Khazen.GEORG KREIS, ed. Switzerland and the Second World War.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. xvii, 378. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Jean-Christian Lambelet.GÜNTER BISCHOF. Austria in the First Cold War, 1945–55: The Leverage of the Weak.New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. xvii, 237. $72.00 (us). Reviewed by Norman J. W. Goda.IFTIKHAR H. MALIK. Islam, Nationalism, and the West: Issues of Identity in Pakistan.New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. xx, 360. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Sarah Ansari.DAVID RYAN and VICTOR PUNGONG, eds. The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xvii, 247. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert J. Mcmahon.GILBERT ROZMAN, ed. Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to Normalization, 1949–1999.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. 389. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Bruce A. Elleman.TORE T. PETERSEN. The Middle East between the Great Powers: Anglo-American Conflict and Cooperation, 1952–7.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xiii, 170. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Glen Balfour-Paul.WOLFRAM KAISER and GILLIAN STAERCK, eds. British Foreign Policy, 1955–64: Contracting Options.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 296. $68.00 (us). Reviewed by John W. Young.SAUL KELLY and ANTHONY GORST, eds. Whitehall and the Suez Crisis.London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. 250. $24.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Howard Dooley.FRANCIS ADAMS. Dollar Diplomacy: United States Economic Assistance to Latin America.Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xv, 200. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Tyler Priest.HOWARD P. WILLENS and DEANNE C. SIEMER. National Security and Self-Determination: United States Policy in Micronesia (1961–1972).Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. x, 281. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Hugh Laracy.KENNETH CONBOY and DALE ANDRADÉ. Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. x, 347. $34.95 (us). Reviewed by Timothy N. Castle.VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS and JAMES DUNKERLEY, eds. The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda.Cambridge, Mass, and London: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, and Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1999; dist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Pp. xiii, 359. $24.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Glenn J. Dorn.RICHARD E. NEUSTADT. Report to JFK: The Skybolt Crisis in Perspective.Ithaca nd London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. 177. $25.00 (us). Reviewed by Alan P. Dobson.UNRYU SUGANUMA. Sovereign Rights and Territorial Space in Sino-Japanese Relations: Irredentism and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 298. $50.00 (us). Reviewed by Choon-Ho Park.P. R. KUMARASWAMY, ed. Revisiting the Tom Kippur War.London and Pordand: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. 249. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by David Tal.HIROSHI KIMURA. Distant Neighbors:I: Japanese-Russian Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov.Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Pp. xxi, 334. $84.95 (us); Distant Neighbors:II: Japanese-Russian Relations under Gorbachev and Yeltsin.Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Pp. xx, 354. $84.95 (us); $150.00 (us), for two volume set. Reviewed by Leszek Buszynski.DANUTA PASZYN. The Soviet Attitude to Political and Social Change in Central America, 1979–90: Case–Studies on Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. ix, 161. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Shearman.MICHAEL MANDELBAUM, ed. The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe.New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 322. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Roger Petersen.SARAH GRAHAM-BROWN. Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq.London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. xvii, 380. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson.RICHARD H. SOLOMON. Exiting Indochina: US Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement and Normalization of Relations with Vietnam.Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 113. $12.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by Macalister Brown.CHRISTOPHER BREWIN. The European Union and Cyprus.Huntingdon, UK: Eothen Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 290. £19.50, paper. Reviewed by Vassilis Fouskas.K. R. HOWE. Nature, Culture, and History: The ‘Knowing’ of Oceania.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. Pp. x, 120. $17.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Chris Healy.PATRICK M. REGAN. Civil Wars and Foreign Powers: Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 172. $39.50 (us). Reviewed by T. David Mason.FRED HALLIDAY. Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power.Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 402. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Richard Falk.MICHAEL HARDT and ANTONIO NEGRI. Empire.Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 478. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by John G. Darwin.RUTH A. ROLAND. Interpreters as Diplomats: A Diplomatic History of the Role of Interpreters in World Politics.Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999; dist. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. viii, 209. $28.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Paul Gordon Lauren.KARMA NABULSI. Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance, and the Law.New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 293. $116.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Cathal J. Nolan.DAVID MOSLER and BOB CATLEY. Global America: Imposing Liberalism on a Recalcitrant World.Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xiv, 225. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Walter Lafeber.

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2001
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328. UNDER THE VOLCANO.

Author

Aronson, Bernard

Subjects
*REVOLUTIONS in literature, *FOREIGN investments, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America," by Walter LaFeber.

Published
1984

329. After the New Left : U.S. cultural radicalism and the Central America solidarity movement, 1979-1992

Author

Witham, Nicholas David

Subjects
320.53097309048, E11 America (General)
Abstract

After the New Left: U.S. Cultural Radicalism and the Central America Solidarity Movement, 1979-1992 examines how the work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers combined with that of transnational solidarity activists during the 1980s to negotiate the legacies of the U.S. New Left and create a radical anti-interventionist movement forged around opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America. The case studies examined include the revisionist historiography of Walter LaFeber and Gabriel Kolko, transnational debates about the meaning of "solidarity" in the pages of several important publications by Verso Books, antiinterventionist journalism at left-liberal magazine The Nation and radical weekly newspaper the Guardian, and political filmmaking including Haskell Wexler's Latino (1985) and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), as well as feminist documentaries When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Maria's Story (1991). Detailed historical analysis of each case study casts light on the relationship that developed between cultural work and political activism during the 1980s, a relationship that helped to sustain the U.S. left through a long and difficult period of Republican ascendency, economic restructuring and decline in trade union militancy. Ultimately, whilst the individuals and institutions examined often used their work to provide representations of the ideas and impulses of the Central America solidarity movement, they also played a sometimes unanticipated role in the constitution of antiinterventionist politics. In other words, the cultural work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers played a role not only in reflecting political processes, but also in helping to shape them. Analysis of the uses to which U.S. cultural radicalism was put in the immediate period "after the New Left" therefore provides an excellent opportunity not only to engage with the complex legacies of 1960s radicalism in recent American history, but also to rethink the question of the relationship between radical culture and activist politics.

Published
2012

330. ウィルソン・ゴーマン関税法とキューバ独立革命

Abstract

This paper is concerned primarily with the effects of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff onthe Cuban sugar economy, which some scholars insist triggered the Cuban Revolution.Unexpectedly, however, they misunderstand those effects.A distinguished historian, Louiz A. Pérez, Jr., argues that the Wilson-Gorman Tariffrepealed the privileged status of Cuban sugar in the United States and caused a devastating blow to the island. The Wilson-Gorman Tariff certainly annulled the Foster Canovas Treaty, a reciprocal agreement, but it had never given the privileged status to Cuban sugar. Therefore its repeal caused no severe results.Furthermore, Pérez, Louis E. Aguilar, and Walter LaFeber insist that the Wilson-GormanTariff drastically decreased the export of Cuban sugar in 1896. Indeed, the productiondiminished, but it was not the result of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff but of the Liberation Army’s strategy, which aimed to sabotage and destroy the Cuban economy.The Wilson-Gorman Tariff and the Spanish reaction certainly changed the traderelationship between the United States and Cuba. Its effects, however, appeared not on the Cuban sugar export but the Cuban importation from it, such as foodstuffs.

Published
2023

331. Review Article: A Friendship Imperilled? The United States and Japan

Author

Cohen, Warren I.

Abstract

WALTER LAFEBER. The Clash: US-Japan Relations throughout History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. Pp. xxii, 508. $29.95 (US); PATRICK SMITH. Japan: A Reinterpretation. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. Pp. 385. $27.50 (US); MICHAEL SCHALLER. Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 320. $44.50 (CDN); STEPHEN D. COHEN. An Ocean Apart: Explaining Three Decades of US-Japanese Trade Frictions. Westport: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xi, 256. $65.00 (US). Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen

Published
1999
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332. A global policy in a regional setting : the Eisenhower administration, Latin America & Brazil, 1953-1961

Author

Sewell, Bevan

Subjects
327.70809045
Abstract

This thesis re-examines the Eisenhower administration's policies in Latin America, focusing specifically on the case study of Brazil (1953-1961). In doing so it moves beyond the existing historiography, which has divided the field in to two distinct camps. The Traditional school, led by scholars like Stephen Rabe and Mark Gilderhus, has argued that US policy during this time was informed by national security concerns and the fighting of the Cold War. However, the Revisionist school, led by scholars such as Walter LaFeber and James Siekmeier, has argued that US policy was more concerned with fighting Latin economic nationalism and extending the American economic system throughout the region. It is the contention here that there were, in fact, two separate objectives underpinning US policy at this time - economic preponderance and the need to be seen to be "winning" the Cold War - and that it was the relationship between these two aims that was the defining characteristic of US policy during this period. This division arose out of the way that US foreign policy evolved in the post-World War Two era and, therefore, was not a deliberate construct by US officials. As a result, there was an inherent tension within US policy between those aims in the strategic sphere and those in the economic sphere. Establishing a link between these two distinct areas of policy is the major theme of this thesis: as is demonstrated throughout, the lack of a defining Grand Strategy within US policy would prove to be enormously problematic for the Eisenhower administration as they struggled to reconcile the tensions between the differing aspects of their Latin American policy. Whilst this trend will be highly prominent in this analysis of US-Latin American relations, it is with respect to Brazil that the full impact of this tension between economic idealism and strategic pragmatism becomes most evident. By adopting an analytical framework that incorporates both strategic and economic aspects of US policy, this thesis expands upon the existing historiography relating to the field and offers up a new appraisal of the US approach in the Cold War period.

Published
2006

333. Japan's Full Story.

Author

Kristof, Nicholas D.

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL economic relations
Abstract

Reviews two books about the foreign economic relations of Japan. `The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History,' by Walter Lafeber; `Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation,' by Michael Schaller.

Published
1997
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334. Book Reviews

Author

Pugsley, David, Trombley, Frank, Metcalf, D. M., Queller, Donald, Anderson, M. S., Guilmartin, J. F., Flint, Valerie, Meyerson, Mark, Trumpener, Ulrich, Burkholder, Mark, Jordan, Winthrop, Frick, David, Dennerline, Jerry, Ditchfield, Simon, Borah, Woodrow, Hampson, Norman, Strachan, Hew, Moran, Daniel, McLaren, Martha, Hoerder, Dirk, Beeler, John, Rich, Norman, MacKenzie, John, Charmley, Anglia John, Carton, Benedict, Aruga, Tadashi, Gann, L. H., Smith, Geoffrey, Ranft, Bryan, Gordon, Andrew, Neilson, Keith, Mackenzie, Hector, Brinkley, Douglas, Callahan, Raymond, Murphy, Philip, Kwan, Daniel, Kirk-Greene, A. H. M., Singh, Anita Inder, Zahniser, Marvin, Marks, Sally, Carver, Michael, Mierzejewski, Alfred, Burridge, Trevor, Bartlett, C. J., Trotter, Ann, Aronsen, Lawrence, Tarling, Nicholas, Oren, Michael, Foot, Rosemary, Matray, James, Lucas, Scott, Brands, H. W., Costigliola, Frank, White, N. D., Lane, Thomas, Keeley, James, and Conge, Patrick

Abstract

ALAN WATSON. International Law in Archaic Rome: War and Religion. Baltimore, MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 100. $25.00 (us). Reviewed by David Pugsley.GARTH FOWDEN. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 205. $17.95 (us). Reviewed by Frank R. Trombley.M. K. LAWSON. Cnut: The Danes in England in the Early Eleventh Century. London and New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. xiii, 290. $75.95 (CDN). Reviewed by D. M. Metcalf.RALPH-JOHANNES LILIE. Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204, trans. J. C. Morris and Jean E. Ridings. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 342. $101.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Donald E. Queller.VAMIK D. VOLKAN and NORMAN ITZKOWITZ. Turks and Greeks: Neighbours in Conflict. Huntingdon, UK: Eothen Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 233. £12.50. Reviewed by M. S. Anderson.MICHEL MOLLAT DU JOURDIN. Europe and the Sea, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1993. Pp. xiii, 269. $24.95 (us). Reviewed by J. F. Guilmartin.BEATRIZ PASTOR BODMER. The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589, trans. Lydia Longstreth Hunt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 317. $42.50 (us). Reviewed by Valerie I. J. Flint.ALISA MEYUHAS GINIO, ed. Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Mediterranean World after 1492. London: Frank Cass; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS, 1992. Pp. 293. £35.00. Reviewed by Mark D. Meyerson.MIKULAS TEICH and ROY PORTER, eds. The National Question in Europe in Historical Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xx, 343. $69.95 (us), cloth; $17.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Ulrich Trumpener.CHRISTOPHER WARD. Imperial Panama: Commerce and Conflict in Isthmian America, 1550-1800. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 272. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark A. Burkholder.AUDREY SMEDLEY. Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 340. $18.95 (us). Reviewed by Winthrop D. Jordan.ZDENKO ZLATAR. Our Kingdom Come: The Counter-Reformation, the Republic of Dubrovnik, and the Liberation of the Balkan Slavs. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xxi, 464. $42.00 (us). Reviewed by David A. Frick.LYNN A. STRUVE, ed. and trans. Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers' Jaws. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 303. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Jerry Dennerline.MARKUS VOLKEL. Romische Kardinalshaushalte des 17. Jahrhunderts: Borghese-Barberini-Chigi. Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, Band 74. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1993. Pp. x, 509. DM 165. Reviewed by Simon Ditchfield.JOCHEN MEISSNER. Eine Elite im Umbruch: Der Stadtrat von Mexiko zwischen kolonialer Ordnung und unabhangigem Staat (1761-1821). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1993. Pp. xii, 424. DM 136. Reviewed by Woodrow Borah.BAILEY STONE. The Genesis of the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Interpretation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 268. $49.95 (us), cloth; $14.95 (us)paper. Reviewed by Norman Hampson.GARY P. COX. The Halt in the Mud: French Strategic Planning from Waterloo to Sedan. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 258. $44.95 (us). Reviewed by Hew Strachan.CHRISTOPHER BASSFORD. Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 293. $65.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Daniel Moran.LYNN ZASTOUPIL. John Stuart Mill and India. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 280. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by Martha McLaren.CHARLOTTE ERICKSON. Leaving England: Essays on British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 272. $38.50 (us). Reviewed by Dirk Hoerder.C. I. HAMILTON. The Anglo-French Naval Rivalry, 1840-1870. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 359. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by John Beeler.HERMANN WENTKER. Zerstorung der Grossmacht Russland? Die britischen Kriegsziele im Krimkrieg. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993. Pp. 341. DM 104.00. Reviewed by Norman Rich.THOMAS RICHARDS. The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire. London and New York: Verso, 1993. Pp. viii, 179. $59.95 (us), cloth; $18.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by John M. MacKenzie.FRANK FUREDI. The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative. London: Pluto Press; Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994. Pp. 140. $51.50 (us), cloth; $17.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by John Charmley.JAMES O. GUMP. The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 178. £23.95. Reviewed by Benedict Carton.ALEXANDER DECONDE. Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 270. $32.50 (us). Reviewed by Tadashi Aruga.HARALD ROSENBACH. Der Deutsche Reich, Grossbritannien und der Transvaal, i896-1902: Anfange Deutsch-Britischer Entfremdung. Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 52. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994. Pp. 360. DM 86.00; Reviewed by L. H. Gann.DAVID R. SMOCK, ed. Making War and Waging Peace: Foreign Intervention in Africa. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1993. Pp. vi, 290. $32.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by L. H. Gann.THOMAS J. MCCORMICK and WALTER LAFEBER, eds. Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 271. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Geoffrey S. Smith.JAMES GOLDRICK and JOHN B. HATTENDORF, eds. Mahan is Not Enough: The Proceedings of a Conference on the Works of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond. Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1993. Pp. vii, 405. $10.00 (us). Reviewed by Bryan Ranft.B. McL. RANFT, ed. The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence and Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: Volume II: 1916-1927. Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press, 1993. Pp. xxiii, 500. £50.00. Reviewed by Andrew Gordon.A. J. PLOTKE. Imperial Spies Invade Russia: The British Intelligence Interventions, 1918. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 283. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Keith Neilson.GRAEME S. MOUNT. Canada's Enemies: Spies and Spying in the Peaceable Kingdom. Toronto and Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 158. $24.99 (CDN). Reviewed by Hector Mackenzie.ROGER A. BEAUMONT. Joint Military Operations: A Short History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 245. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Douglas Brinkley.SHELFORD BIDWELL and DOMINICK GRAHAM. Coalitions, Politicians, and Generals: Some Aspects of Command in Two World Wars. London: Brassey's, 1993. Pp. vi, 323. £29.95. Reviewed by Raymond Callahan.STEPHEN HOWE. Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918-1964. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 373. $90.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Philip Murphy.MARILYN A. LEVINE. The Found Generation: Chinese Communists in Europe during the Twenties. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 287. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Daniel Y. K. Kwan.COLIN BAKER. Development Governor: A Biography of Sir Geoffrey Colby. London: British Academic Press; dist. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 407. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene.A. MARTIN WAINWRIGHT. Inheritance of Empire: Britain, India, and the Balance of Power in Asia, 1938-1955. New York: Praeger, 1993. Pp. xiv, 237. $55.00 (us); Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh.ROBERT J. MCMAHON. The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan, 1947-1965. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 431. $30.00 (us) Reviewed by Anita Inder Singh.MARIO ROSSI. Roosevelt and the French. New York: Praeger, 1993. Pp. xxi, 1993. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Marvin R. Zahniser.MARTIN CONWAY. Collaboration in Belgium: Leon Degrelle and the Rexist Movement, 1940-1944. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 364. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Sally Marks.ANTONY BEEVOR. Crete: The Battle and the Resistance. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 383. $55.00 (us), cloth; $17.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael Carver.R. J. OVERY. War and Economy in the Third Reich. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 390. $78.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Alfred C. Mierzejewski.JOHN KENT. British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944-1949. Leicester and London: Leicester University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 224. £35.00; Reviewed by Trevor Burridge.JOHN SAVILLE. The Politics of Continuity: British Foreign Policy and the Labour Government, 1945-1946. London and New York: Verso, 1993. Pp. x, 293. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Trevor Burridge.MICHAEL BLACKWELL. Clinging to Grandeur: British Attitudes and Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of the Second World War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. 196. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by C. J. Bartlett.PETER BATES. Japan and the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952. London: Brassey's, 1993. Pp. xviii, 270. £29.95. Reviewed by Ann Trotter.FRANK KOFSKY. Harry S. Truman and the War Scare 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 420. $35.00 (us); Reviewed by.HECTOR MACKENZIE, ed. Canada: Documents on Canadian External Relations: Vol. XIV: 1948. Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1994. Pp. xliv, 1,907. $99.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Lawrence Aronsen.RICHARD J. ALDRICH. The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929-1942. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 416. $73.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Nicholas Tarling.NEIL CAPLAN. The Lausanne Conference, 1949: A Case Study in Middle East Peacemaking. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University; dist. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993. Pp. 176. $9.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Michael B. Oren.SERGEI N. GONCHAROV, JOHN W. LEWIS, and XUE LITAI. Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 393. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Rosemary Foot.IAN MCGIBBON. New Zealand and the Korean War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 468. $82.95 (CDN). Reviewed by James I. Matray.JAN MELISSEN. The Struggle for Nuclear Partnership: Britain, the United States, and the Making of an Ambiguous Alliance, 1952-1959. Groningen, The Netherlands: Styx Publications; dist. Broomall, PA: Styx, 1993. Pp. 153. $33.00 (us). Reviewed by Scott Lucas.DIANE B. KUNZ, ed. The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations during the 1960s. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 372. $16.50 (us). Reviewed by H. W. Brands.PHILIP H. GORDON. A Certain Idea of France: French Security Policy and the Gaullist Legacy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xxv, 255. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Frank Costigliola.YOURY LAMBERT. The United Nations Industrial Development Organization: UNIDO and Problems of International Economic Cooperation. New York: Praeger, 1993. Pp. xiv, 201. $55.00 (us) Reviewed by N. D. White.ANATOL LIEVEN. The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Path to Independence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. Pp. xxv, 454. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Thomas Lane.DAVID A. BALDWIN, ed. Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 377. $17.50 (us), paper. Reviewed by James F. Keeley.DAVID ARMSTRONG. Revolution and World Order: The Revolutionary State in International Society. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. vii, 328. $84.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Patrick J. Conge.

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1995
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335. Reviews and notes

Author

Sakolsky, Ron, Luke, Timothy, Bronner, Stephen Eric, and Moore, Scott

Abstract

Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (New York: Basic Books, 1984).On Bureaucratic Discourse: A Radical Feminist Analysis of the Role of Public Administration in Late CapitalismJean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities . . . or the End of the Social and Other Essays, trans, by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and John Johnston (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), 123 pp.Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, trans. by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983), 159 pp.Omar Cabezas, Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista, translated by Kathleen Weaver with a foreword by Carlos Fuentes and an afterword by Walter LaFeber (Crown Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1985), pp. 233.

Published
1986
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336. REVIEW ESSAY Relations with Panama.

Author

Harbutt, Fraser

Subjects
INTERNATIONAL relations, INTERNATIONAL economic relations
Abstract

Comments on three books about Panama's international relations. 'The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914,' by David McCullough; 'The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective,' by Walter LaFeber; 'The Truth About the Panama Canal,' by Denison Kitchel.

Published
1978
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338. Trivial Pursuits.

Author

Hendrickson, David

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL relations, *PUBLIC law, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since 1750," by Walter LaFeber.

Published
1989

339. Who Won the Cold War?

Author

FLEMING, D. F.

Subjects
NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews two books on cold war. "America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-1966," by Walter LaFeber; "The Rise and Decline of the Cold War," by Paul Seabury.

Published
1968

340. The Short American Century : A Postmortem

Author

Andrew J. Bacevich and Andrew J. Bacevich

Subjects
Social values--United States--History--20th century, Politics and culture--United States, National characteristics, American, Civilization, Modern--American influences
Abstract

Writing in Life magazine in February 1941, Henry Luce memorably announced the arrival of “The American Century.” The phrase caught on, as did the belief that America's moment was at hand. Yet as Andrew J. Bacevich makes clear, that century has now ended, the victim of strategic miscalculation, military misadventures, and economic decline. To take stock of the short American Century and place it in historical perspective, Bacevich has assembled a richly provocative range of perspectives.What did this age of reputed American preeminence signify? What caused its premature demise? What legacy remains in its wake? Distinguished historians Jeffry Frieden, Akira Iriye, David Kennedy, Walter LaFeber, Jackson Lears, Eugene McCarraher, Emily Rosenberg, and Nikhil Pal Singh offer illuminating answers to these questions. Achievement and failure, wisdom and folly, calculation and confusion all make their appearance in essays that touch on topics as varied as internationalism and empire, race and religion, consumerism and globalization.As the United States grapples with protracted wars, daunting economic uncertainty, and pressing questions about exactly what role it should play in a rapidly changing world, understanding where the nation has been and how it got where it is today is critical. What did the forging of the American Century—with its considerable achievements but also its ample disappointments and missed opportunities—ultimately yield? That is the question this important volume answers.

Published
2012

343. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam : Or, How Not to Learn From the Past

Author

Lloyd C. Gardner, Marilyn B. Young, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Marilyn B. Young

Subjects
Iraq War, 2003-2011, Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States
Abstract

Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer “history at its best, meaning, at its most useful.” —Howard Zinn From the launch of the “Shock and Awe” invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of “Mission Accomplished” two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of Vietnam. This new book makes clear that something closer to the opposite is true—that US foreign policy makers have learned little from the past, even as they have been obsessed with the “Vietnam Syndrome.” Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam brings together the country's leading historians of the Vietnam experience. Examining the profound changes that have occurred in the country and the military since the Vietnam War, this book assembles a distinguished group to consider how America found itself once again in the midst of a quagmire—and the continuing debate about the purpose and exercise of American power. Also includes contributions from: Alex Danchev • David Elliott • Elizabeth L. Hillman • Gabriel Kolko • Walter LaFeber • Wilfried Mausbach • Alfred W. McCoy • Gareth Porter “Essential.” —Bill Moyers

Published
2011

344. Corrections.

Abstract

Several corrections are presented related to the article about vaccine misinformation, article about athletes' accusations related to emotional abuse on coaches, and an obituary about the historian Walter LaFeber.

Published
2021

345. Changes in U. S. Tariffs and Three Revolutions at the End of the 19th Century

Abstract

An American prominent diplomatic historian, Walter Lafeber said that changes in U. S. tariffs triggered two revolutions and accelerated a third in sugar islands in the 1890s. Many scholars have observed the relationship between them, but some have misunderstood. This paper attempts to correct thesemisunderstandings. One of the misunderstandings relates to the reciprocity of the Makinley Tariff. It offered not a differential advantage but only a differential advantage to the sugar islands. Secondly, misunderstandings relate to the relationship between the Makinley Tariff and the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty that gave Hawaiian sugar a differential advantage. The former made the latter invalid. That gave rise to an attempt to regain its sugar’s preferential position by getting the Makinley Tariff’s bounty. Thirdly, misunderstandings relate to the effects of the sugar schedule on the Makinley Tariff. The Sugar Trust had preferred centrifugal sugar to widen the margin between the price of refined sugar and that of raw sugar. The uniform duty on raw sugar of the Makinley Tariff put spurt the trend. Therefore, the importation of centrifugal sugar increased that manufactured in a few islands and colonies, such as Cuba, Hawaii, and Dutch East India.

Published
2021

346. 19世紀末米国関税法の変更と 3 つの革命

Abstract

An American prominent diplomatic historian, Walter Lafeber said that changes in U. S. tariffs triggered two revolutions and accelerated a third in sugar islands in the 1890s. Many scholars have observed the relationship between them, but some have misunderstood. This paper attempts to correct thesemisunderstandings. One of the misunderstandings relates to the reciprocity of the Makinley Tariff. It offered not a differential advantage but only a differential advantage to the sugar islands. Secondly, misunderstandings relate to the relationship between the Makinley Tariff and the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty that gave Hawaiian sugar a differential advantage. The former made the latter invalid. That gave rise to an attempt to regain its sugar’s preferential position by getting the Makinley Tariff’s bounty. Thirdly, misunderstandings relate to the effects of the sugar schedule on the Makinley Tariff. The Sugar Trust had preferred centrifugal sugar to widen the margin between the price of refined sugar and that of raw sugar. The uniform duty on raw sugar of the Makinley Tariff put spurt the trend. Therefore, the importation of centrifugal sugar increased that manufactured in a few islands and colonies, such as Cuba, Hawaii, and Dutch East India.

Published
2021

347. After the New Left: U.S. cultural radicalism and the Central America solidarity movement, 1979-1992

Author

Witham, Nicholas David and Witham, Nicholas David

Abstract

After the New Left: U.S. Cultural Radicalism and the Central America Solidarity Movement, 1979-1992 examines how the work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers combined with that of transnational solidarity activists during the 1980s to negotiate the legacies of the U.S. New Left and create a radical anti-interventionist movement forged around opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America. The case studies examined include the revisionist historiography of Walter LaFeber and Gabriel Kolko, transnational debates about the meaning of "solidarity" in the pages of several important publications by Verso Books, antiinterventionist journalism at left-liberal magazine The Nation and radical weekly newspaper the Guardian, and political filmmaking including Haskell Wexler's Latino (1985) and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), as well as feminist documentaries When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Maria's Story (1991). Detailed historical analysis of each case study casts light on the relationship that developed between cultural work and political activism during the 1980s, a relationship that helped to sustain the U.S. left through a long and difficult period of Republican ascendency, economic restructuring and decline in trade union militancy. Ultimately, whilst the individuals and institutions examined often used their work to provide representations of the ideas and impulses of the Central America solidarity movement, they also played a sometimes unanticipated role in the constitution of antiinterventionist politics. In other words, the cultural work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers played a role not only in reflecting political processes, but also in helping to shape them. Analysis of the uses to which U.S. cultural radicalism was put in the immediate period "after the New Left" therefore provides an excellent opportunity not only to engage with the complex legacies of 1960s radicalism in recent American history, but also to r

348. After the New Left: U.S. cultural radicalism and the Central America solidarity movement, 1979-1992

Author

Witham, Nicholas David and Witham, Nicholas David

Abstract

After the New Left: U.S. Cultural Radicalism and the Central America Solidarity Movement, 1979-1992 examines how the work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers combined with that of transnational solidarity activists during the 1980s to negotiate the legacies of the U.S. New Left and create a radical anti-interventionist movement forged around opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America. The case studies examined include the revisionist historiography of Walter LaFeber and Gabriel Kolko, transnational debates about the meaning of "solidarity" in the pages of several important publications by Verso Books, antiinterventionist journalism at left-liberal magazine The Nation and radical weekly newspaper the Guardian, and political filmmaking including Haskell Wexler's Latino (1985) and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), as well as feminist documentaries When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Maria's Story (1991). Detailed historical analysis of each case study casts light on the relationship that developed between cultural work and political activism during the 1980s, a relationship that helped to sustain the U.S. left through a long and difficult period of Republican ascendency, economic restructuring and decline in trade union militancy. Ultimately, whilst the individuals and institutions examined often used their work to provide representations of the ideas and impulses of the Central America solidarity movement, they also played a sometimes unanticipated role in the constitution of antiinterventionist politics. In other words, the cultural work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers played a role not only in reflecting political processes, but also in helping to shape them. Analysis of the uses to which U.S. cultural radicalism was put in the immediate period "after the New Left" therefore provides an excellent opportunity not only to engage with the complex legacies of 1960s radicalism in recent American history, but also to r

349. After the New Left: U.S. cultural radicalism and the Central America solidarity movement, 1979-1992

Author

Witham, Nicholas David and Witham, Nicholas David

Abstract

After the New Left: U.S. Cultural Radicalism and the Central America Solidarity Movement, 1979-1992 examines how the work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers combined with that of transnational solidarity activists during the 1980s to negotiate the legacies of the U.S. New Left and create a radical anti-interventionist movement forged around opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America. The case studies examined include the revisionist historiography of Walter LaFeber and Gabriel Kolko, transnational debates about the meaning of "solidarity" in the pages of several important publications by Verso Books, antiinterventionist journalism at left-liberal magazine The Nation and radical weekly newspaper the Guardian, and political filmmaking including Haskell Wexler's Latino (1985) and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), as well as feminist documentaries When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Maria's Story (1991). Detailed historical analysis of each case study casts light on the relationship that developed between cultural work and political activism during the 1980s, a relationship that helped to sustain the U.S. left through a long and difficult period of Republican ascendency, economic restructuring and decline in trade union militancy. Ultimately, whilst the individuals and institutions examined often used their work to provide representations of the ideas and impulses of the Central America solidarity movement, they also played a sometimes unanticipated role in the constitution of antiinterventionist politics. In other words, the cultural work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers played a role not only in reflecting political processes, but also in helping to shape them. Analysis of the uses to which U.S. cultural radicalism was put in the immediate period "after the New Left" therefore provides an excellent opportunity not only to engage with the complex legacies of 1960s radicalism in recent American history, but also to r

350. After the New Left: U.S. cultural radicalism and the Central America solidarity movement, 1979-1992

Author

Witham, Nicholas David and Witham, Nicholas David

Abstract

After the New Left: U.S. Cultural Radicalism and the Central America Solidarity Movement, 1979-1992 examines how the work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers combined with that of transnational solidarity activists during the 1980s to negotiate the legacies of the U.S. New Left and create a radical anti-interventionist movement forged around opposition to the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America. The case studies examined include the revisionist historiography of Walter LaFeber and Gabriel Kolko, transnational debates about the meaning of "solidarity" in the pages of several important publications by Verso Books, antiinterventionist journalism at left-liberal magazine The Nation and radical weekly newspaper the Guardian, and political filmmaking including Haskell Wexler's Latino (1985) and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), as well as feminist documentaries When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Maria's Story (1991). Detailed historical analysis of each case study casts light on the relationship that developed between cultural work and political activism during the 1980s, a relationship that helped to sustain the U.S. left through a long and difficult period of Republican ascendency, economic restructuring and decline in trade union militancy. Ultimately, whilst the individuals and institutions examined often used their work to provide representations of the ideas and impulses of the Central America solidarity movement, they also played a sometimes unanticipated role in the constitution of antiinterventionist politics. In other words, the cultural work of intellectuals, journalists and filmmakers played a role not only in reflecting political processes, but also in helping to shape them. Analysis of the uses to which U.S. cultural radicalism was put in the immediate period "after the New Left" therefore provides an excellent opportunity not only to engage with the complex legacies of 1960s radicalism in recent American history, but also to r

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