Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations

Frank Costigliola

ISBN 10: 100944798X / ISBN 13: 9781009447980

Published by Cambridge University Press, GB, 2025

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The fourth edition of Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations reconceptualizes this long-established classic to focus squarely on methods: not what we do, but how we do what we do. It presents revised, sharply focused essays on methods for researching national security, development, political economy, gender, religion, race, emotion, and nongovernmental organizations, alongside entirely new contributions on digital resources, spatial analysis, technology, materials, the natural world, the interaction of race and empire, US-Indigenous relations, ideology, and culture. The chapters are bracketed with an essay that assesses changes in the conception of US foreign relations history, and with an overview of how US foreign relations history is practiced in China. The essays, by scholars who have made a significant contribution in their areas of specialization, highlight conceptual approaches and methods that, taken together, offer an innovative and practical 'how-to' manual for both experienced scholars and newcomers to the field.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 100944798X
• ISBN 13: 9781009447980
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: New
• Weight: 627 grams

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Synopsis

The fourth edition of Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations reconceptualizes this long-established classic to focus squarely on methods: not what we do, but how we do what we do. It presents revised, sharply focused essays on methods for researching national security, development, political economy, gender, religion, race, emotion, and nongovernmental organizations, alongside entirely new contributions on digital resources, spatial analysis, technology, materials, the natural world, the interaction of race and empire, US-Indigenous relations, ideology, and culture. The chapters are bracketed with an essay that assesses changes in the conception of US foreign relations history, and with an overview of how US foreign relations history is practiced in China. The essays, by scholars who have made a significant contribution in their areas of specialization, highlight conceptual approaches and methods that, taken together, offer an innovative and practical 'how-to' manual for both experienced scholars and newcomers to the field.

About the Authors

Frank Costigliola is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. His books include Roosevelt's Lost Alliances, which won the Robert H. Ferrell Prize for best book from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. A former president of SHAFR, he received SHAFR's Graebner Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.

Barbara J. Keys is Chair of US History at Durham University. She is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and a past winner of the Society's Stuart Bernath Lecture Prize. Her first book Globalizing Sport won the Society's Myrna Bernath Prize.