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The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of US Culture. Kennan, George. American Diplomacy. Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. Krenn, Michael. The Color of Empire: Race and American Foreign Relations. LaFeber, Walter. The American Age: American Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad. _____________. America, Russia, and the Cold War. Laurence, Paul Gordon. Power and Prejudice: the Politics and Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination. McCormick, Thomas J. America’s Half Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After. Murphy, Gretchen. Hemispheric Imaginings: the Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of US Empire. Ninkovich, Frank. Modernity and Power: A history of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century. Osgood, Robert E. Ideals and Self-Interest in American Foreign Policy. Painter, David S. The Cold War: an International History. Painter, David S. and Melvyn Leffler. 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Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflection on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico. Campbell, James T., Matthew Pratt Guterl and Robert G. Lee, eds. Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. Clymer, Kenton. Protestant Missionaries in the Philippines, 1898-1916. De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: American Advances through Twentieth-Century Europe. Hannigan, Robert. The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917. Hoganson, Kristin. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars Hunt, Michael. Frontier Defense and the Open Door: Manchuria in Chinese-American Relations, 1895-1911. Kramer, Paul. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. McCormick, Thomas. China Market: America’s Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901. Mojares, Resil. The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu, 1899-1906. Ninkovich, Frank. The United States and Imperialism. Offner, John. An Unwanted War: the Diplomacy of the United States and Spain over Cuba, 1895-1898. Renda, Mary. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of US Imperialism, 1915-1940. Rosenberg, Emily. Financial Missionaries to the World: the Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930. Diplomacy: Imperialism Beale, Howard. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power. Beisner, Robert. Twelve Against Empire. LaFeber, Walter. Inevitable Revolutions. _____________. The New Empire Mommsen, Wolfgang. Theories of Imperialism. Ostler, Jeffrey. The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee. Pratt, Julius. Expansionists of 1898. Welch, Richard. Response to Imperialism, 1899-1902. Young, Marilyn. The Rhetoric of Empire, 1895-1901. Diplomatic: 1900-1939 Adler, Selig. The Isolationist Impulse. Ambrosius, Lloyd. Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations. Clements, Kendrick. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Cohen, Warren. Empire Without Tears. Cooper, Jr., John Milton. The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Costigliola, Frank. Awkward Dominion. Dalleck, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy. _____________. The American Style of Foreign Policy. The American Style of Foreign Policy. Davis, Donald and Eugene Trani. The First Cold War: the Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in US-Soviet Relations. Divine, Robert. Reluctant Belligerent. Feis, Herbert. The Diplomacy of the Dollar. Ferrell, Robert H. American Diplomacy in the Great Depression. Gardner, Lloyd. Safe for Democracy. Hawley, Ellis. The Great War and the Search for Modern Order. Heater, Derek. National Self-Determination: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy. Hogan, Michael. Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo- American Economic Diplomacy. Iriye Akira. After Imperialism. _________. Across the Pacific. Knock, Thomas. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order. Langer, W.L. and S.E. Gleason. The Challenge to Isolation, 1937-1940. Leffler, Melvin. The Elusive Quest: America’s Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933. ____________. The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953. Levin, N. Gordon. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America’s Response to War and Revolution. Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace. Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. May, Ernest. The World and American Isolation, 1914-1917. Mayer, Arno. Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemakeing: Containment and Counterrevolution at Versailles, 1918-1919. Morrison, Elting. Turmoil and Tradition. Ninkovich, Frank. The Wilsonian Century: US Foreign Policy since 1900. Rosenberg, Emily. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945. Smith, Robert. The United States and Revolutionary Nationalism in Mexico. Smith, Tony. America’s Mission: the United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century. Thorne, Christopher. The Limits of Foreign Policy. Wilson, Joan Hoff. American Business and Foreign Policy. Wood, Bryce. The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy. Woodward, David. Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918. Diplomatic: World War II Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: the War in North Africa, 1942-1943. Beschloss, Michael. The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945. Borg, Dorothy. The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933-38. Borg and Okamoto (eds.). Pearl Harbor as HistoryPearl Harbor as History. Clemens, Diane Shaver. Yalta. Cole, Wayne S. America First: The Battle Against Intervention, 1940-41. ____________. Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-45. Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. __________. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Edmunds, Robin. The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in Peace & War. Feis, Herbert. The Road to Pearl Harbor. Frank, Richard. Downfall: the End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. Harbutt, Fraser. Yalta 1945. Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. Heinrichs, Waldo. Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II. Kimball, Warren. Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War. Levine, Steven. Anvil of Victory. Lowenthal, Mark. Leadership and Indecision. Martel, Gordon. The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered. Nadeau, Remi. Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt Divide Europe. Offner, Arnold. Origins of the Second World War. 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