American Foreign Relations, Volume 1

Thomas G. Paterson, professor emeritus of history at the University of Connecticut, graduated from the University of New Hampshire (B.A., 1963) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1968). He is the author of Soviet-American Confrontation (1973), Meeting the Communist Threat (1988), On Every Front (1992), Contesting Castro (1994), America Ascendant (with J. Garry Clifford, 1995), and A People and a Nation (with Mary Beth Norton et al., 2001). Tom is also the editor of Cold War Critics (1971), Kennedy's Quest for Victory (1989), Imperial Surge (with Stephen G. Rabe, 1992), The Origins of the Cold War (with Robert McMahon, 1999), Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (with Michael J. Hogan, 2004), and Major Problems in American Foreign Relations (with Dennis Merrill, 2010). With Bruce Jentleson, he served as senior editor for the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations (1997). A microfilm edition of The United States and Castro's Cuba, 1950s-1970s: The Paterson Collection appeared in 1999. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of American History and Diplomatic History. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he has directed National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers. In 2000 the New England History Teachers Association recognized his excellence in teaching and mentoring with the Kidger Award. Besides visits to many American campuses, Tom has lectured in Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russia, and Venezuela. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, which in 2008 honored him with the Laura and Norman Graebner Award for "lifetime achievement" in scholarship, service, and teaching. A native of Oregon, Tom is now informally associated with Southern Oregon University.

This best-selling text presents the best synthesis of current scholarship available to emphasize the theme of expansionism and its manifestations.

1. Embryo of Empire: Americans and the World Before 1789. 2. Independence, Expansion, and War, 1789-1815. 3. Extending and Preserving the Empire, 1815-1848. 4. Expansionism, Sectionalism, and Civil War, 1848-1865. 5. Establishing Regional Hegemony and Global Power, 1865-1895. 6. Imperialist Leap, 1895-1900. 7. Managing, Policing, and Extending the Empire, 1900-1914. 8. War, Peace, and Revolution in the Time of Wilson, 1914-1920. Appendix: Makers of American Foreign Relations. General Bibliography. 6. Diplomatic Crossroad: The Maine, McKinley, and War, 1898. The Venezuelan Crisis of 1895. American Men of Empire. Each in His Own Way: Cleveland and McKinley Confront Cuba Libre, 1895-1898. The Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War. Men versus "Aunties": The Debate over Empire in the United States. Imperial Collisions in Asia: The Philippine Insurrection and the Open Door in China. The Elbows of a World Power, 1895-1900.