American Foreign Relations since 1600: a Guide to the Literature

A thorough update of the standard bibliography of American Foreign relations literature from colonial times to the present day. Born of revolution but destined for empire. A nation of immigrants isolated by two great oceans. America's relations with the rest of the world have always been complex and contradictory, a fact exhaustively chronicled by historians. This thorough one volume bibliography surveys the vast historiography of 400 years of American foreign relations. America has...
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A thorough update of the standard bibliography of American Foreign relations literature from colonial times to the present day. Born of revolution but destined for empire. A nation of immigrants isolated by two great oceans. America's relations with the rest of the world have always been complex and contradictory, a fact exhaustively chronicled by historians. This thorough one volume bibliography surveys the vast historiography of 400 years of American foreign relations. America has formed alliances, exchanged diplomats, traded goods and services, and fought wars with nations on every continent but Antarctica. And we've written books, articles, reports, and papers about it-tens of thousands of them. In American Foreign Relations since 1600, the 2002 president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Robert Beisner, has worked with members of SHAFR to compile the most exhaustive survey of writing on American foreign relations ever published. Covering 400 years of American history, his team of editors, all top experts in the field, have amassed and annotated nearly 20,000 published and non-published works.; It's all here, from the Mayflower Compact to the My Lai massacre, from the War of 1812 to the war on terrorism, from pre-Revolutionary era to the post-Cold War world.