Collection : The United States in the World

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Books in this innovative series globalize the study of United States history. It features extraordinary works that explore how people, ideas, processes, and events that transcend national borders have shaped United States history from the antebellum period through the present. Cornell University Press and the series editors welcome established and emerging scholars based in the United States and abroad who work on diverse topics and regions of the world.

The series encourages books that integrate the methodologies of transnational and international history, particularly the use of domestic and international archives; multilingual sources; and the study of the important role played by both state and non-state actors. The goal of the United States in the World series is to bring together the best new scholarship that globalizes United States history, thereby enriching and broadening our understanding of United States history.

Please send inquiries to: Mark Philip Bradley (mbradley@uchicago.edu) David C. Engerman (engerman@brandeis.edu), Amy S. Greenberg (amygreenberg@psu.edu), and Paul A. Kramer (paul.a.kramer@vanderbilt.edu).

Forthcoming volumes in the series include:

The Rise of the Defense Intellectual: Hans Speier and the Trans-Atlantic Origins of Cold War Foreign Policy by Daniel Bessner

Our Frontier is the World: An Imperial History of the Boy Scouts of America by Mischa Honeck

Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration by Robert McGreevey

The Arc of Containment: Britain, Malaya, Singapore, and the Rise of American Hegemony in Southeast Asia by Wen-Qing Ngoei

The Greek Fire: The Greek Revolution and the Emergence of American Reform Movements by Maureen Santelli

The United States, the International Community, and Indonesia's New Order, 1966–1998 by Bradley R. Simpson

The Value of Interests: The Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy in Latin America, 1973-1984 by Vanessa Walker

Oil Money: How Petrodollars Transformed U.S.-Middle East Relations, 1967–1986 by David M. Wight

Series Editors

Mark Philip Bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the prize-winning Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 and The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. He is currently working on a book that explores the intellectual history of the Global South and serves as the general editor of the four-volume Cambridge History of American and the World.

David C. Engerman is Ottilie Springer Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has written two books on American ideas about Russia/USSR, including most recently Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts. His longstanding interest in modernization and development programs in the Third World has led to two co-edited collections (including Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War) and his forthcoming book, Development Politics: The Economic Cold War in India.  His current research is on the global politics of economic inequality in the 1970s.

Amy S. Greenberg is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of four books, including the prize-winning A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico; Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with Documents; and Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. She is currently at work on a study of the role of dissent in nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy.

Paul A. Kramer is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, winner of the Stuart L. Bernath and James Rawley Prizes, as well as numerous articles on U. S. transnational, imperial and global histories. His current project deals with the intersection between immigration and imperial politics in the United States across the 20th century.