Andrew Preston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 328130 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Preston |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Preston |
| FIRMA | PRESTON A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3381-4839 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Crack-cocaine use practices, harms and respiratory problems
The use of stimulants, such as crack-cocaine, is a global public health concern. Crack-cocaine use is increasing in the UK, but available data is focused on those who inject or also use opioids. To address this gap, characteristics of people using crack-cocaine in England, including respiratory problems among those who smoke, and variation in these by gender are described. Adults self-reporting crack-cocaine use in the past 28 days, recruited by …
Secrets and Lies
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
In great depth, Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate, beginning with the overthrow of the Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963 to the aftermath of the 1968 Tết Offensive. This five-year period was, for the most part, the fulcrum of a three-decades-long struggle to determine the future of Vietnam and was marked by rival spirals of escalation generated by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Unite…
Fighting for Oxford and Cambridge
Religion and US Empire
Journal Article Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories. by Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson Get access Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories. By Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 319pp. $38.00. Andrew Preston Andrew Preston University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3381-4839 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Red Internationalism
Journal Article Red Internationalism: Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies. Salar Mohandesi Get access Red Internationalism: Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies Salar Mohandesi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 354 pp. $39.99). Andrew Preston Andrew Preston University of Cambridge [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3381-4839 Search for other works by this …
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions…
The Emperor Is Dead—Long Live the Empire
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Menace to Empire
Journal Article Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State. By Moon-Ho Jung Get access Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State By Moon-Ho Jung (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. ix + 348 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. $29.95.) Andrew Preston Andrew Preston Cambridge UniversityCambridge, England amp33@c…
From Dong Dang to Da Nang
Dong Dang to Da Nang: The Past, Present
The Limits of Brotherhood
Historians now recognize the political significance the Protestant ecumenical movement of the early twentieth century. American ecumenists contributed to the architecture of international organization and were among the first to promote a global discourse of human rights, and ecumenical plans for world order were designed for the peaceful spread of national self-determination and to combat racial prejudice. Ecumenical missionaries were at the for…
A (Not Very) Distant Mirror
Republic in Peril
What would Jesus do? In His Steps, the 1896 bestselling novel by the Kansas minister and Christian progressive Charles Sheldon, asked readers to pose this question whenever they were confronted with a problem in their lives. Ever since, the question has been a popular catchphrase in the United States. At root, it challenges Christians to return to first principles in the face of even the most complex challenges raised by the modern world. In his …
Israel in the American Mind
Journal Article Israel in the American Mind: The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations, 1958–1988 Get access Israel in the American Mind: The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations, 1958–1988. By Shaul Mitelpunkt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xx, 385 pp. $49.99.) Andrew Preston Andrew Preston University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ameri…
D avid A. H ollinger . Protestants Abroad
In the summer of 1941, as officials in Washington became increasingly concerned about Japanese ambitions in Southeast Asia, Kenneth Landon found himself summoned to Washington. Landon, then teaching at a college in Indiana, had been a Presbyterian missionary to Thailand; he spoke Thai, knew the region well, and had recently published some articles on Thailand. At the time, there was only a small handful of Southeast Asian experts in the United St…
Enlisting Faith
In recent years, American historians have explored, in new and interesting ways, diverse topics such as the separation of church and state, civil religion, the fraught condition of religious liberty, civil-military relations, and the religious influence on war and diplomacy (or vice versa). In her compelling and original book Enlisting Faith, Ronit Y. Stahl brings these five (or six) separate strands together in a single analytical narrative that…
The Honest Broker
In September 1990, only five weeks after Iraq had invaded and occupied Kuwait, President George H. W. Bush went before Congress to lay out his vision for the future of world politics, and the United States’ place in it. Much had happened since Bush took office in January 1989: the U.S. invasion of Panama, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of the end of the Cold War, and the brutal, bloody crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents in Beiji…
G.I. Messiahs
Few people have gained the iconic status enjoyed by military personnel. For most Americans, even those who dissent from U.S. foreign policy or military intervention, soldiers, sailors, and pilots embody the quintessence of selfless patriotism. At the same time, the United States remains a highly religious nation, still predominantly Christian in character, adherence, and culture yet also pluralistic to an unprecedented extent. In G.I. Messiahs, a…
Grant Wacker. America's Pastor
Reclaiming American Virtue
Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s, by Barbara J. Keys. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2014. 362 pp. $31.50 US (cloth). Recently, historians have paid a great deal of attention to the 1970s as a decade of profound and enduring transformation. According to Charles Maier, Thomas Borstelmann, and Daniel Sargent, among others, the 1970s wrought changes that were as significant as those of any other period of th…
America in the World
America in the World
America's Thirty Years' War
Monsters Everywhere
Journal Article Monsters Everywhere: A Genealogy of National Security Get access Andrew Preston Andrew Preston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 38, Issue 3, June 2014, Pages 477–500, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhu018 Published: 13 May 2014
‘Rethinking the Vietnam War’ by John Dumbrell
Romantic Relational Aggression
Bridging the Gap between the Sacred and the Secular in the History of American Foreign Relations
With the eruption of global hostilities between two universalistic, mutually exclusive ideologies, the president of the United States sought to rally Americans, and people around the world, to the cause of spreading freedom and democracy. What was most striking about his rhetoric was its explicit grounding in religious dogma and imagery. "The defense of mankind against these attacks," the president told an audience at the onset of the crisis, "li…
Enforcing the Peace
The Little State Department
This article examines the alteration of the role, prerogatives, and power of the special assistant to the president for national security affairs, a position more commonly known as the national security adviser. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower conceived of and shaped the National Security Council(NSC) and its staff to be administrative in their responsibilities and character. Under President Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy utterly changed this, concentr…
The First Human Right
Although presidential administrations have promoted and protected religious liberty abroad fitfully and inconsistently, the freedom of religion has long been seen as both a symptom of, and a cure for, tensions within the United States' relations with the wider world. In keeping with a faith-inflected version of democratic peace theory, many US foreign policy makers have perceived the absence of religious liberty in foreign countries as a warning …
Peripheral visions
This essay challenges the underlying assumption that American religion in the Cold War was nationalistic, militant, and blindly obsessed with anti-communism. Instead, it draws attention to liberal mainline Protestants who, from their experience in the ecumenical and missionary movements, called for decolonisation, nuclear and conventional disarmament, and unconditional dialogue with the Soviets and recognition of China; they were also concerned w…
The Deeper Roots of Faith and Foreign Policy
To the obvious relief of many, it appears that the wave that carried the religious right to power in the United States has crested. Though domestic issues such as health care or the environment threaten to enfiarne partisan and ideological tensions in US politics, the religious right does not seem to be playing a conspicuous role. Moreover, while the issues near and dear to Christian conservatives, such as abortion and same-sex marriage, continue…
Operation Smallbridge
In 1966 Canadian diplomats and politicians sought to bring the United States and North Vietnam to the negotiating table. Canada's secret search for peace, code-named Operation Smallbridge, was led by retired diplomat Chester Ronning, who twice traveled to North Vietnam. Although Ronning's first mission convinced him that Hanoi was willing to discuss terms, U.S. escalation of the war continued. On his second mission, Ronning discovered that Washin…
The Little State Department
This article examines the alteration of the role, prerogatives, and power of the special assistant to the president for national security affairs, a position more commonly known as the national security adviser. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower conceived of and shaped the National Security Council(NSC) and its staff to be administrative in their responsibilities and character. Under President Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy utterly changed this, concentr…
Balancing War and Peace
“A settlement is hard to envisage in the heat of battle,” Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson declared on 2 April 1965, “but it is now imperative to seek one.”1 With these words, the leader of America's closest ally publicly expressed growing frustration with, and opposition to, American military intervention in Vietnam. In a speech at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pearson called on the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson to …
The Soft Hawksʼn Dilemma in Vietnam
Operation Smallbridge
In 1966 Canadian diplomats and politicians sought to bring the United States and North Vietnam to the negotiating table. Canada's secret search for peace, code-named Operation Smallbridge, was led by retired diplomat Chester Ronning, who twice traveled to North Vietnam. Although Ronning's first mission convinced him that Hanoi was willing to discuss terms, U.S. escalation of the war continued. On his second mission, Ronning discovered that Washin…
The Three New Rubrics
America Unbound
Against All Enemies
Examines America's war on terror, both before and after September 11th, including what went right or wrong, the operations of al Qaeda, the Department of Homeland Security, and other crucial actions of the Bush administration
Enforcing the Peace
Bridging the Gap between the Sacred and the Secular in the History of American Foreign Relations
With the eruption of global hostilities between two universalistic, mutually exclusive ideologies, the president of the United States sought to rally Americans, and people around the world, to the cause of spreading freedom and democracy. What was most striking about his rhetoric was its explicit grounding in religious dogma and imagery. "The defense of mankind against these attacks," the president told an audience at the onset of the crisis, "li…
Romantic Relational Aggression
Nixon in the World
In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts. By nearly every measure, American power was no longer unrivalled. The task of managing America’s relative decline fell to President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Gerald Ford. From 1969 to 1977, Nixon, Kissinger, and Ford reoriented U.S. foreign policy from its traditional poles of liberal interventionism and conservative isolationism into a policy of active but conserva…
The Iraq war as contemporary history
YEARS FROM NOW, historians seeking a barometer of the decline in popular support for the Iraq War need only read Bob Woodward's trilogy on the George W. Bush administration's foreign policy. The first volume, Bush at War, which exanfines the planning for the war in Afghanistan in 200l, borders at times on the hagiographical.1 The sequel, Plan of Attack, which examines the military and diplomatic approach to war in Iraq in 2oo3, is more reserved. …
Selling the Korean War
Steven Casey, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, xi+476 pp In both the popular imagination and the historical literature, the Korean War has long been overshadowed by the titanic s
Religion and American foreign policy, 1945–1960
William Inboden, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xi+356 pp Religion has long been the unloved and unwanted orphan of American diplomatic history: neglected most of the tim
The War Council
War Council
The Politics of Realism and Religion
Having triumphantly forced Iraq from Kuwait only a few months before, President George H. W. Bush turned to address the faithful at the 1991 annual conference of the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination and a growing force in Republican politics. Bush's choice of venue revealed much about the power shift in the Republican party's religious and regional identity: here was a straight-laced Episcopalian, born and ra…
The Deeper Roots of Faith and Foreign Policy
To the obvious relief of many, it appears that the wave that carried the religious right to power in the United States has crested. Though domestic issues such as health care or the environment threaten to enfiarne partisan and ideological tensions in US politics, the religious right does not seem to be playing a conspicuous role. Moreover, while the issues near and dear to Christian conservatives, such as abortion and same-sex marriage, continue…
Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order
Peripheral visions
This essay challenges the underlying assumption that American religion in the Cold War was nationalistic, militant, and blindly obsessed with anti-communism. Instead, it draws attention to liberal mainline Protestants who, from their experience in the ecumenical and missionary movements, called for decolonisation, nuclear and conventional disarmament, and unconditional dialogue with the Soviets and recognition of China; they were also concerned w…
Faith and war
David E. Settje, New York, New York University Press, 2011, xi+233 pp This excellent book does exactly what it says on the tin: it examines the ways in which American Christians debated, discussed
‘Rethinking the Vietnam War’ by John Dumbrell
Dead space
The First Human Right
Although presidential administrations have promoted and protected religious liberty abroad fitfully and inconsistently, the freedom of religion has long been seen as both a symptom of, and a cure for, tensions within the United States' relations with the wider world. In keeping with a faith-inflected version of democratic peace theory, many US foreign policy makers have perceived the absence of religious liberty in foreign countries as a warning …
The Dissent Papers
Diplomatic historians have paid comparatively little attention to dissent. Though individual dissenters—including four of the protagonists here—have been chronicled extensively, less thought has been given to the phenomenon of official, internal dissent. In this elegant and gracefully written book, Hannah Gurman does much to contextualize and theorize a tradition of dissent within American foreign policy. In four chapters Gurman zeroes in on nota…
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