Research Guides: HIST 254: Harvest of Empire, U.S. History, 1898 to the Present (HC): Background Sources

Historiography

Oxford Bibliographies Online
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Extensive annotated bibliographies on specific topics in different subject areas (including Latin American Studies, Political Science, American Literature, etc.) written by scholars in the field. New entries are added twice a year. Essays of interest now available include:
"American Exceptionalism"
"Ethnic Diasporas and US Foreign Policy"
"Politics of Oil"
"United States-China Relations, 1949-present"
"U.S.-Latin American Relations During the Cold War"
"The United States and Castro's Cuba in the Cold War"
"Immigration Politics and Policy in the United States"
"The US and Africa"
History Compass
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Offers interpretive essays highlighting recent scholarship. Titles of interest among the literature reviews include:
"Exploring the Concept of Empire in Pacific History: Individuals, Nations, and Ocean Space Prior to 1850" - David Igler (2014)
"Empire, Industry, and Globalization: Rethinking the Emergence of the Gold Standard in the 19th‐century World" - J. Taylor Vurpillat (2014)
"Footprints, Frontiers, and Empires: Latin American Tourism Development, 1840–1959" - Evan R. Ward (2014)
"Sexuality, Migration, and Tourism in the 20th Century U.S.‐Mexico Borderlands" - Marlene Medrano (2013)
"19th Century Latin America Imperialism from a Global Perspective" - Michael Powelson (2011)
"Travel Writing as Evidence with Special Attention to Nineteenth‐Century Anglo‐America" - Daniel Kilbride (2011)

Background Reading

Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Diplomacy Series
These reference books provide a basic overview of people, places, events, and concepts in U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century.

American Foreign Relations since 1600 by Robert L. Beisner; Kurt Hanson (Editor)
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ISBN: 1576070808
Publication Date: 2003-06-10
A thorough update of the standard bibliography of American foreign relations literature from colonial times to the present day.
Historical Dictionary of Cuba by Jaime Suchlicki; Lawrence Hallewell (Editor)
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ISBN: 081083779X
Publication Date: 2001-09-18
This recently enlarged edition focuses on the events of this last momentous decade while the Cuban regime and its subjects struggle, bereft of outside support and subsidy. The author has expanded on the recent as well as earlier periods. New entries include all Spanish governors and captains general, transport and communications, and every present-day municipio, along with Cuba's older administrative divisions. Provides a wealth of information from the earliest human settlement to the difficulties of the last decade. Also includes several maps detailing such aspects of Cuba as its provinces, major highways, natural features and railroads.