How does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? This book explores the ideological landscape of international relations from the colonial era to the present. It offers a foundational statement on the intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy.

Edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne

Introduction, by Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne
Part I: Ideologies and the People
1. Indigenous Subjecthood and White Populism in British America, by Matthew Kruer
2. American Presidents and the Ideology of Civilization, by Benjamin A. Coates
3. Containing the Multitudes: Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy Ideas at the Grassroots Level, by Michaela Hoenicke-Moore
4. "Mrs. Sovereign Citizen": Women's International Thought and American Public Culture, 1920-1950, by Katharina Rietzler
Part II: Ideologies of Power
5. Competing Free Trade Traditions in U.S. Foreign Policy from the American Revolution to the "¿American Century", by Marc-William Palen
6. The Righteous Cause: John Quincy Adams and the Limits of American Exceptionalism, by Nicholas Guyatt
7. Antislavery and Empire: The Early Republican Party Confronts the World, by Matthew Karp
8. The Fearful Giant: National Insecurity and U.S Foreign Policy, by Andrew Preston
9. Unilateralism as Ideology, by Christopher McKnight Nichols
Part III: Ideologies of the International
10 "For Young People": Protestant Missions, Geography, and American Youth at the End of the Nineteenth Century, by Emily Conroy-Krutz
11. Eugenia Charles, the United States, and Military Intervention in Grenada, by Imaobong Umoren
12. I Think of Myself as an International Citizen: Flemmie P. Kittrell's Internationalist Ideology, by Brandy Thomas Wells
13. Just War as Ideology: A Militant Ecumenism of Catholics and Evangelicals, by Raymond Haberski Jr.
Part IV: Ideologies and Democracy
14. Freedom as Ideology, by Jeremi Suri
15. Roads Not Taken: The Delhi Declaration, Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, and the Lost Futures of 1989, by Penny Von Eschen
16. Not Just Churches: American Jews, Joint Church Aid, and the Nigeria-Biafra War, by Melani McAlister
17. Contentious Designs: Ideology and U.S. Immigration Policy, by Daniel Tichenor
Part V: Ideologies of Progress
18. Capital and Immigration in the Era of the Civil War, by Jay Sexton
19. The Progressive Origins of Project RAND, by Daniel Bessner
20. Cold War Liberals, Neoconservatives, and the Rediscovery of Ideology, by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Michael Franczak
21. The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas's Star Wars, by Daniel Immerwahr
22. Dual-Use Ideologies: How Science Came to Be Part of the United States' Cold War Arsenal, by Audra J. Wolfe
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index