From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 Read Online Free PDF

see Bradford Perkins,
The Great Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1895–1914
(Berkeley, Calif., 1968) and William N. Tilchin,
Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft
(New York, 1997). For China, see Hunt,
Making of a Special Relationship,
and Delber L. McKee,
Chinese Exclusion Versus the Open Door Policy, 1900–1906
(Detroit, Mich., 1977). Saul's
Concord and Conflict
is good on the conflicts over Jewish immigration and trade, as is Gary Dean Best,
To Free a People: American Jewish Leaders and the Jewish Problem in Eastern Europe, 1890–1914
(Westport, Conn., 1982). Roosevelt's role in the Russo-Japanese War is covered in Raymond A. Esthus,
Double Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905
(Durham, N.C., 1988) and Eugene P. Trani,
The Treaty of Portsmouth: An Adventure in American Diplomacy
(Lexington, Ky., 1969). For the expanding U.S. role in the Caribbean, see David F. Healy,
Drive to Hegemony: The United States in the Caribbean, 1898–1917
(Madison, Wisc., 1988) and Richard H. Collin,
Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean: The Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Latin American Context
(Baton Rouge, La., 1990). International rivalries are covered in Nancy Mitchell,
The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1999) and Thomas D. Schoonover,
Germany in Central America: Competing Imperialism, 1821–1929
(Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1998). Walter LaFeber's
Search for Opportunity
and
The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
(New York, 1979) are excellent. For U.S. colonial administration, see Pedro A. Cabán,
Constructing a Colonial People: Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898–1932
(Boulder, Colo., 1999) and Glenn Anthony May,
Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims, Execution, and Impact of American Colonial Policy, 1900–1913
(Westport, Conn., 1980), which finds little lasting impactfrom U.S. activities. Emily S. Rosenberg,
Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930
(Durham, N.C., 2003) breaks new ground by analyzing the role of the ubiquitous U.S. financial advisers. Cyrus Veeser,
A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to World Power
(New York, 2002) is good on that topic.
    Two excellent recent studies of the Great War by distinguished military historians are John Keegan,
The First World War
(New York, 2000) and Michael Howard,
The First World War
(London, 2003). The United States during the war period is covered in Robert H. Ferrell,
Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917–1921
(New York, 1985), Ellis W. Hawley,
The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917–1933
(2nd ed., New York, 1992), and Robert H. Zieger,
America's Great War
(Lanham, Md., 2000). David M. Kennedy,
Over Here: The First World War and American Society
(New York, 1980; rev. ed., 2004) focuses on the home front. Studies of Woodrow Wilson abound. Arthur Link was his authoritative biographer, and his
Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
(Arlington Heights, Ill., 1979) summarizes his major arguments on Wilson's foreign policy. Other valuable studies include Kendrick Clements,
Woodrow Wilson, World Statesman
(Boston, 1987) and
The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
(Lawrence, Kans., 1992), Lloyd E. Ambrosius,
Wilsonian Statecraft: Theory and Practice of Liberal Internationalism During World War I
(Wilmington, Del., 1991), a neo-realist critique, Frederick Calhoun,
Power and Principle: Armed Intervention in Wilson's Foreign Policy
(Kent, Ohio, 1986), which focuses on Wilson's military interventions, Thomas J. Knock,
To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
(New York, 1992), which provides numerous insights into his ideas and foreign policy, Lloyd C. Gardner,
Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913–1923
(New York, 1987), and