Focusing on American foreign policy, this reader combines primary sources and analytical essays to foster critical thinking. It challenges users to evaluate historians' interpretations and form their own conclusions. Ideal for courses on U.S. foreign policy and 20th Century history, it also highlights how cultural factors—such as class, gender, race, and national identity—have influenced American perceptions and international relationships. This educational tool encourages an in-depth exploration of historical context and cultural dynamics.
With Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that
interpret existing statutes. Due to the so-called Chevron doctrine, courts
generally defer to agencies. Thomas Merrill examines the immense consequences
of the doctrine and the intense backlash, offering a new way to conceptualize
the authority of agencies and courts.
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this reader uses a carefully selected group of primary sources and analytical essays to allow students to test the interpretations of distinguished historians and draw their own conclusions about the history of American foreign policy. This text serves as an effective educational tool for courses on U.S. foreign policy, recent U.S. history, or 20th Century U.S. history. The Seventh Edition introduces new studies on America's early foreign relations which seek to position the nation's post 9-11 attitudes and behaviors within historical context. Some of the new literature spotlights cultural relations, and the ways in which culturally constructed attitudes about class, gender, race, and national identity have shaped American's perceptions of the world and subsequently its overseas relationships. In this volume, almost one-half of the essays are new, including selections by Michael L. Krenn, Walter A. Hixson, Robert Kagan, John Lamberton Harper, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Joseph J. Ellis, John E. Lewis Jr., Piero Gleijeses, Stuart Banner, McCabe Keliher, Michael H. Hunt, Kristin L. Hoganson, Paul A. Kramer, Stanley Karnow, Robert W. Tucker, and Erez Manela. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
The first work to make Hume's comparison of himself to Socrates the basis of
an extended interpretation, this book shows how Hume's turn to moral and
political philosophy is a response to the crisis of radical questioning. It
will interest Hume specialists, political theorists, and historians of
political philosophy.
