Into new territory : American historians and the concept of US imperialism / James G. Morgan. by Morgan, James G.

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History, the White House and the Kremlin : statesmen as historians / edited by Michael Graham Fry.

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Charles Austin Beard : the return of the master historian of American imperialism / Richard Drake. by Drake, Richard, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Beardian interpretation of American history -- Discovering the economic taproot of imperialism -- Two contrasting progressive views of the Great War -- Becoming a revisionist -- Washington and Wall Street working together for war -- Isolationism versus internationalism -- A wartime trilogy -- Waging war for the four freedoms -- Beard finds an ally in Herbert Hoover -- Attacking "the Saint" -- Defending Beard after the fall -- Beard's philosophy of history and American imperialism -- Conclusion : the sad historian of the pensive plain.…”
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An American by degrees : the extraordinary lives of French ambassador Jules Jusserand / Robert J. Young. by Young, Robert J., 1942-

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H. B. Morse : Customs Commissioner and historian of China / John King Fairbank, Martha Henderson Coolidge, Richard J. Smith. by Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991, Coolidge, Martha Henderson, 1925-, Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-

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George Kennan and the dilemmas of US foreign policy / David Mayers. by Mayers, David Allan, 1951-

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George Kennan for Our Time Lee Congdon by Congdon, Lee, 1939-

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Bridging Australia and Japan The Writings of David Sissons, Historian and Political Scientist. by Tamura, Keiko

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George Kennan : a study of character / John Lukacs. by Lukacs, John, 1924-2019

Table of Contents: “…A lonely youth -- In the Foreign Service -- First officer on the bridge of the ship of state -- Washington to Princeton -- A conscience of a nation -- The historian -- Philosophy, religion; memory; old age -- Appendix: Two finest hours.…”
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A people's history of American empire : a graphic adaptation / Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle. by Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

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The United States and the Second World War : new perspectives on diplomacy, war, and the home front / edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash.

Table of Contents: “…Veterans tell their stories and why historians and others listened /…”
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Italian Foreign Policy : the Statecraft of the Founders, 1870-1896. by Chabod, Federico

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Federico Chabod, Historian of Itauan Foreign Policy by Walter Maturi.…”
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Harry S. Truman and the Cold War revisionists / Robert H. Ferrell. by Ferrell, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…Revisionism -- The bomb, the view from Washington -- Diplomacy without armaments -- NATO -- Truman and Korea -- Historians on Truman.…”
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The Columbia guide to the Cold War / Michael Kort. by Kort, Michael, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative overview -- The Cold War and its historians -- The Cold War begins: 1945-1953 -- From the thaw to the brink: 1953-1962 -- Vietnam and détente: 1962-1975 -- The new Cold War: 1976-1984 -- The end of the Cold War: 1985-1990 -- The Cold War A to Z -- Concise chronology -- Resources.…”
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The life of Alcibiades : dangerous ambition and the betrayal of Athens / Jacqueline de Romilly ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. by Romilly, Jacqueline de

Table of Contents: “…Richly endowed -- Insults and scandals -- First pause : Alcibiades between two lifestyles -- Political debut : the Argive alliance -- The grand design -- The scandals -- Exile : defending treason -- In Asia Minor -- With the Athenians on Samos -- Second pause : Alcibiades between two historians -- A triumphal return -- Slightly more than one hundred days -- A final appearance -- Repercussions.…”
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Britain's lost revolution? : Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701-8. by Daniel, Szechi

Table of Contents: “…: Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701-8; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations and maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations, dates, spelling and punctuation; Chapter 1: Britain's lost revolution and the historians; Chapter 2: March 1708 and its aftermath; Chapter 3: The Jacobite underground in the early eighteenth century; Chapter 4: The Scots Jacobite agenda, 1702-10; Chapter 5:The geopolitics of the Enterprise of Scotland; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The British Commonwealth and the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 : personal encounters and government assessments / edited by Ian Nish.

Table of Contents: “…Millar -- Some Royal Navy reflections / Walter Miller -- RAF experiences / Hugh Cortazzi -- A British army perspective / Ian Nish -- A historian and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) / R. …”
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Germans, Poland, and colonial expansion to the East : 1850 through the present / edited by Robert L. Nelson.

Table of Contents: “…Nelson -- Putting the east in order: German historians and their attempts to rationalize German eastward expansion during the 1930s and 1940s / Eduard Mühle -- The languages of occupation: vocabularies of German rule in Eastern Europe in the world wars / VejasGabriel Liulevicius -- The conquest of nature and the mystique of the eastern frontier in Nazi Germany / David Blackbourn -- The threatening other in the East: continuities and discontinuities in modern German-Polish relations / Oliver Schmidtke.…”
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China and International Relations : the Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu. by Yongnian, Zheng

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Historicity and social foundation of China's domestic order and international relations; 1 Historicity and international relations: A tribute to Wang Gungwu; 2 A re-appraisal of Abrahamic values and neorealist IR theory: From a Confucian-Asian perspective; 3 Historians and Chinese world order: Fairbank, Wang, and the matter of 'indeterminate relevance'; 4 The historical roots and character of secularism in China; Part II: Reinterpreting China's 'world order'…”
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Dying to forget : oil, power, Palestine, & the foundations of U.S. policy in the Middle East / Irene L. Gendzier. by Gendzier, Irene L.

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