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Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations

Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations

Chapters in this book (29)

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

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