Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations : : New Histories / / ed. by Christopher McKnight Nichols, David Milne.

Ideology drives American foreign policy in ways seen and unseen. Racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization underlay the political revolution of eighteenth-century white colonizers; neoconservatism, neoliberalism, and unilateralism propelled the post–Cold War United States to unleash catastr...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE Ideologies and the People
  • 1 Indigenous Subjecthood and White Populism in British America
  • 2 American Presidents and the Ideology of Civilization
  • 3 Containing the Multitudes: Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy Ideas at the Grassroots Level
  • 4 “Mrs. Sovereign Citizen”: Women’s International Thought and American Public Culture, 1920–1950
  • PART TWO Ideologies of Power
  • 5 Competing Free Trade Traditions in U.S. Foreign Policy from the American Revolution to the “American Century”
  • 6 The Righteous Cause: John Quincy Adams and the Limits of American Exceptionalism
  • 7 Antislavery and Empire: The Early Republican Party Confronts the World
  • 8 The Fearful Giant: National Insecurity and U.S. Foreign Policy
  • 9 Unilateralism as Ideology
  • PART THREE Ideologies of the International
  • 10 “For Young People”: Protestant Missions, Geography, and American Youth at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  • 11 Eugenia Charles, the United States, and Military Intervention in Grenada
  • 12 I Think of Myself as an International Citizen: Flemmie P. Kittrell’s Internationalist Ideology
  • 13 Just War as Ideology: A Militant Ecumenism of Catholics and Evangelicals
  • PART FOUR Ideologies and Democracy
  • 14 Freedom as Ideology
  • 15 Roads Not Taken: The Delhi Declaration, Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, and the Lost Futures of 1989
  • 16 Not Just Churches: American Jews, Joint Church Aid, and the Nigeria-Biafra War
  • 17 Contentious Designs: Ideology and U.S. Immigration Policy
  • PART FIVE Ideologies of Progress
  • 18 Capital and Immigration in the Era of the Civil War
  • 19 The Progressive Origins of Project RAND
  • 20 Cold War Liberals, Neoconservatives, and the Rediscovery of Ideology
  • 21 The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars
  • 22 Dual-Use Ideologies: How Science Came to Be Part of the United States’ Cold War Arsenal
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index