Major Problems in American Foreign Relations: Documents and Essays, Concise Edition

Major Problems in American History

by Dennis Merrill

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this concise reader uses a carefully selected group of primary sources and analytical essays to allow students to test the interpretations of distinguished historians and to draw their own conclusions about the history of American foreign policy. The text serves as an effective educational tool for one-semester courses on U.S. foreign policy or recent U.S. history.The Concise Edition consolidates the two volumes of Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 6/e, into a single volume. Covering the major events of American foreign relations from the Revolutionary era through September 11 and its aftermath, the chapters also address the role of gender, race, and national identity in American foreign policy.

560 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

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[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

In sharp contrast to the earlier works of the generation personified by Samuel F. Bemis, Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, and Kenneth J. Hagan are liberal and humanistic New Testament theologians within the context of this religious metaphor. They accept the argument of moral relativity in foreign policy and hence pronounce the nationalism of other peoples a fit object of consideration in the study of American foreign policy. They dispense God's mercy to the reader generously by including alternative explanations of the history of American foreign policy. Unlike Bemis, they are not the self-appointed advocates for a "Chosen People." Their account is therefore considerably more broad, informative, and enjoyable.