American Diplomacy of the Second World War: The American Experience in World War II

Marc Notes: v. 1. The United States and the road to war in Europe -- v. 2. Isolationists and internationalists: the battle over intervention -- v. 3. The United States and the road to war in the Pacific -- v. 4. Pearl Harbor in history and memory -- v. 5. The United States in the European theater -- v. 6. The United States in the Pacific war -- v. 7. The atomic bomb in history and memory -- v. 8. American diplomacy of the Second World War -- v. 9. American culture at war: the homefront -- v. 10. The American people at war: minorities and the Second World War -- v. 11. Remembering and representing the Second World War -- v. 12. The United States transformed: the lessons and legacies of the Second World War. Publisher Marketing: This collection of facsimile reprints brings together the most significant scholarship focusing on the origins, evolution, outcome, legacies and representations of the most significant conflict in the 20th century, and one that transformed US history. The collection contextualizes the transformative force of international events and American decisions in the years leading to conflict that ultimately brought the United States into the war in Europe and in the Pacific. These decisions catapulted the United States out of economic depression, political isolation, social conservativism and into a role as global actor that left the US in a position of unprecedented global power and international influence. Articles examine the character of the American war effort and its diplomatic and military decision-making. Finally, the collection documents the changing of US society, from the lives of workers and minorities to industrial and political elites and how these years still hold strong influence on the nation's memory, its self-understanding and its depiction in popular culture and other forms of representation.

Contributor Bio:  Hixson, Walter Walter Hixson is professor and chair, Department of History, University of Akron. He has published numerous books and articles on the history of U. S. foreign policy, including the prize-winning book "George F. Kennan: Cold War Iconoclast," He lives in Fairlawn, OH.