The Romance of History: Essays in Honor of Lawrence S. KaplanScott L. Bills, E. Timothy Smith Kent State University Press, 1997 - Počet stran: 304 The Romance of History is a collection of articles and essays which reflects the varied professional interests of eminent diplomatic historian Lawrence S. Kaplan. The collection is drawn largely from Kaplan's former students--accomplished scholars in their own right--but also features senior colleagues. Throughout a lifetime of teaching and scholarship, Kaplan has accomplished one of the most important tasks of historians: to tell stories that enlightens and provoke. He has helped probe and define two vital areas of American history: the diplomacy of the early republics and the evolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Both eras were filled with challenges, risks, and policymakers alternately wise and unwise, brash and humble, idealistic and pragmatic; both eras were punctuated by crises that appeared to threaten the foundations of the nation; and, for Kaplan, both were linked by a common thread of reason and the patient effort to shape an effective diplomacy among shifting global rivals. The Romance of History is a tribute to a fine historian, demonstrating the range and scope of his interests. |
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... Western allegiance . Ruddy's article shows how an avowedly hard - line anticommunist administration exhibited a " basic pragmatism " and thus finessed the issue by distinguish- ing between " neutrality " and " neutralism . " J. K. ...
... Western European centers over the past six years , " one must realize that he is , at least according to us , one of the few American historians of the postwar period who is genuinely in- terested in the insights provided by scholars ...
... Western Europe in " The American Century " ( a Society for Historians of American For- eign Relations [ SHAFR ] presidential address given in 1981 ) , he admitted that in the 1950s and 1960s , when the United States was at the zenith of ...
... Western Eu- ropean states had been " faced with an apparently powerful So- viet Union prepared to extend communism " into any vital part of the world . One notable change , however , needs to be recorded here . In his earliest writings ...
... Western Union . The second characteristic of special interest is Kaplan's predi- lection for historical parallels . The two entangling alliances of 1778 and 1949 , the Monroe Doctrine and the Truman Doctrine , and the crises in NATO in ...
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Keynote | 33 |
Diplomacy without Armaments 19451950 | 35 |
Articles | 51 |
Answering the Call The First Inaugural Addresses of Thomas Jefferson and William Jefferson Clinton | 53 |
Internationalism and the Republican Era | 68 |
Public History Serves the Nation The Historical Service Board 19431945 | 88 |
Republican Party Politics Foreign Policy and the Election of 1952 | 167 |
Confronting Cold War Neutralism The Eisenhower Administration and Finland A Case Study | 196 |
The Unwanted Alliance Portugal and the United States | 214 |
Notes | 229 |
WORKS BY LAWRENCE S KAPLAN | 279 |
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations Directed by Lawrence S Kaplan | 287 |
Contributors | 293 |
Index | 297 |
The African Sojourn of the Council of Foreign Ministers Transnational Planning and AngloAmerican Diplomacy 19451948 | 102 |
Beyond the Waters Edge Liberal Internationalist and Pacifist Opposition to NATO | 142 |
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