A companion to American foreign relations / edited by Robert D. Schulzinger.

Introduction / Robert D. Schulzinger -- Ideas and foreign affairs / H.W. Brands -- "As far as we can": culture and US foreign relations / Susan Brewer -- International environmental issues / Kurk Dorsey -- Early national period, 1775-1815 / Peter P. Hill -- American expansion, 1815-1860 / William E. Weeks -- United States and imperialism / Frank Ninkovich -- Relations with Africa since 1900 / Andrew DeRoche -- History as victim: the sorry state of the study of US-Japanese relations, 1900-1945 / Michael A. Barnhart -- US-Latin American relations, 1898-1941: a historiographical review / Mark T. Gilderus -- Woodrow Wilson and World War I / Lloyd E. Ambrosius -- Recent explorations concerning the interwar period / Justus D. Doenecke -- World War II / Mark A. Stoler -- Early Cold War / Jeremi Suri -- United States-Latin American relations, 1942-1960 / Darlene Rivas -- From containment to containment? Understanding US relations with China since 1949 / Evelyn Goh, Rosemary Foot -- Korean War / James I. Matray -- Foreign relations in the 1950s / Richard H. Immerman -- Vietnam War / David L. Anderson -- Beyond Vietnam: the foreign policies of the Kennedy-Johnson administration / Randall B. Wood -- United States and the Middle East since 1967 / Peter L. Hahn -- US relations wtih Latin America, 1961 to the present: a historiographic review / Stephen G. Rabe -- Presidential elections and the cold war / Melvin Small -- Détente over thirty years / Keith L. Nelson -- Nationalism and regionalism in an era of globalization: US relations with South and Southeast Asia, 1875-2000 / Robert J. McMahon -- Conclusion: From the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the twenty-first century / Robert D. Schulzinger.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [461]-542) and index.