Thomas W Zeiler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1100794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Zeiler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Zeiler |
| SIGNATURE | ZEILER T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Neoliberal Century
The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I
Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II by Leon Fink
Recent history has not been kind to the American Left, as historians like Leon Fink, in Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II, have noted. In this book, focused mostly on liberal Democrats, Fink studies the vision of progressive internationalists seeking to forge a world of democracy, abundance, and liberty after World War II. As Fink convincingly argues, they came up short, their idealism …
Capitalist Peace: A History of American Free-Trade Internationalism
The United States pursued free trade from the Great Depression onward as part of its grand strategy of coordinating resources and policies to achieve long-term diplomatic objectives. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration, which launched a trade policy steeped in a liberal internationalist worldview, the United States linked trade to global prosperity, to winning wars and peace, and to shaping the world order. Free trade was a cornerst…
Projecting China: Trade Engagement in Beijing’s Half Century
The People’s Republic of China has confronted the United States with diplomatic challenges ever since Washington recognized Beijing in January 1979. Basic to this engagement was and continues to be economics, and particularly trade, which elicited American responses ranging from enmity, fear, and uncertainty to cooperation, amity, and hope. Scholarship has not focused enough attention on the ideals and values that undergirded commercial relations…
Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
There is no need to look far for the mix of politics and sports within nations, among people, and around the world. Consider every Olympic Games from Adolf Hitler's to the present, and it is impossible to disagree with Toby C. Rider's timely book about the early Cold War that, as George Orwell wrote in 1945, “sports is war minus the shooting” (“The Spirit of Sport,” Tribune, Dec. 1945). Rider convincingly proves the case, and even more, exposes t…
Bunk
Contrary to the aphorism that history is more or less bunk, we much prefer to know history, or be doomed to repeat it. Yet how important is history? Very much so, posits this sophisticated collection of essays. The authors urge those who both make and write history—policymakers and historians alike—to address the present by using the past. That might be too much to ask, however, of both sides. These thirteen stimulating essays, editors Hal Brands…
Walter Lippmann: Public Economist , by Craufurd D. Goodwin
Walter Lippmann: Public Economist, by Craufurd D. Goodwin. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2014. viii, 414 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). His long career dedicated to the history of economic thought, Craufurd Goodwin has written a stimulating policy biography of the most prominent public intellectual of the twentieth century. Walter Lippmann learned about unemployment, trade, monetary policy, and fiscal issues from the likes of Keynes and Hayek. A v…
Requiem for the Common Man: Class, the Nixon Economic Shock, and the Perils of Globalization
In the wildly popular sitcom, All in the Family, Archie Bunker had two problems on the night of November 27, 1971. Because his house was located in a so-called high-risk neighborhood of mixed races in Queens, he feared cancellation of the home insurance policy his nephew had sold him. Adding to his woe, the bad economy forced Archie to fire one of his workers. He chose “Little” Emanuel, a Puerto Rican, over the white slacker Stretch Cunningham—to…
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
Companion to World War II
Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II
Jim Lacey. Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Pp. 266. When considering the US production miracle credited for victory in th
A Companion to World War II
"Offering readers much more than a military history, this unparalleled collection of 58 state-of-the-field historiographic essays explores the widely varying contexts in which nations and transnational communities experienced World War II. In doing so, it provides insight into how the war linked nations, systems, and cultures, and sets the agenda for future research. A Companion to World War II introduces readers to the myriad factors influencing…
Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
This account of the historic tour to Japan by a Babe Ruth–led team of American professional baseball players in 1934 is the first comprehensive study of that event. Robert K. Fitts, a passionate researcher of all things Japanese baseball (one might even call him a fitting successor to Robert Whiting, the dean of English-speaking authorities on Japan and Japanese baseball), has written an articulate history of an important event in baseball histor…
Entries
The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field
Journal Article The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler is professor of history at the University of Colorado. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 95, Issue 4, March 2009, Pages 1053–1073, https://doi.org/10.2307/27694560 Published: 01 March 2009
A night at Delmonico's: The Spalding baseball tour and the imagination of Empire
Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II
Unconditional Defeat -the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding stages of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, from November 1943 until September 1945. Thomas W. Zeiler argues that this "war without mercy" could only come to one conclusion: the complete, unconditional defeat of Japan by a mobilized, overwhelming, vengeful United States. Zeiler describes these final 22 months of th…
Prime Time for Progressive Era II
Journal Article Prime Time for Progressive Era II Get access Commanding Heights: Battle for the World Economy. Boston: WGBH Boston Video, 2002. 3 tapes, 6 hours. Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 5, November 2003, Pages 725–728, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00386 Published: 16 October 2003
The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948-63
A decade ago, a debate flared among diplomatic historians regarding Western trade toward the Communist bloc. Centered basically on the notion of American hegemony in the Cold War, contention specifically focused on whether the United States imposed its will on its European friends by trying to limit sales of strategic goods to the Soviet Union. Western European scholars attempted to revise assumptions about U.S. unilateralism by arguing that NATO…
Commanding the Middle: The American Agenda at the Kennedy Round
The Kennedy Round of GATT was an opportunity for Australia and New Zealand to achieve their commercial interests of expanding agricultural exports and adjusting trade flows to the power of the United States, the loss of preferential markets in Britain and the new presence of the European Common Market. Both found commonalities with America, both managed to assert some of their concerns, but both also were decidedly junior and weaker partners to t…
Just Do It! Globalization for Diplomatic Historians
Globalization is marching ahead, whether we like it or not. Advertisers flash dot.com services at us; actress Jamie Lee Curtis travels the world, cell phone in hand; university administrators embrace a total learning environment with technology turning us toward the world. Foot-and-mouth disease, AIDS, and other plagues spread more rapidly and require global containment, due to the economic integration wrought by globalization. Our era, various p…
Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of Gatt
Journal Article Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. By Thomas W. Zeiler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 267 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2458-5.) Get access Mira Wilkins Mira Wilkins Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 280–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568028 Publi…
Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of Gatt
In this era of globalization, it is easy to forget that today's free market values were not always predominant. But as this history of the birth of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) shows, the principles and practices underlying our current international economy once represented contested ground between U.S. policymakers, Congress, and America's closest allies. Drawing on historical and theoretical work in a variety of fields and …
Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937
Journal Article Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933–1937. By Michael A. Butler. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. xii, 240 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-596-9.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1379–1380, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of Gatt
In this era of globalization, it is easy to forget that today's free market values were not always predominant. But as this history of the birth of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) shows, the principles and practices underlying our current international economy once represented contested ground between U.S. policymakers, Congress, and America's closest allies. Drawing on historical and theoretical work in a variety of fields and …
The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field
Journal Article The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler is professor of history at the University of Colorado. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 95, Issue 4, March 2009, Pages 1053–1073, https://doi.org/10.2307/27694560 Published: 01 March 2009
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
A night at Delmonico's: The Spalding baseball tour and the imagination of Empire
Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
There is no need to look far for the mix of politics and sports within nations, among people, and around the world. Consider every Olympic Games from Adolf Hitler's to the present, and it is impossible to disagree with Toby C. Rider's timely book about the early Cold War that, as George Orwell wrote in 1945, “sports is war minus the shooting” (“The Spirit of Sport,” Tribune, Dec. 1945). Rider convincingly proves the case, and even more, exposes t…
Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II
Jim Lacey. Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Pp. 266. When considering the US production miracle credited for victory in th
The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948-63
A decade ago, a debate flared among diplomatic historians regarding Western trade toward the Communist bloc. Centered basically on the notion of American hegemony in the Cold War, contention specifically focused on whether the United States imposed its will on its European friends by trying to limit sales of strategic goods to the Soviet Union. Western European scholars attempted to revise assumptions about U.S. unilateralism by arguing that NATO…
Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade
Journal Article Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade. By Douglas A. Irwin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xii, 265 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-01138-9.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1050–1051, https://doi.org/10.2307/295…
The Politics of Trade: American Political Development and Foreign Economic Policy
Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776
Journal Article Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776. By Alfred E. Eckes Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xxii, 402 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2213-2.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 180–181, https://doi.o…
Free-Trade Politics and Diplomacy: John F. Kennedy and Textiles
For more than two decades now political debates in the United States over foreign and domestic economic policies have revolved around strategies to deal with the consequences of America's successful postwar reconstruction policies. By the late 1950s Western Europe had moved well beyond recovery and, together with Japan, had been integrated into the open, multilateral world economy long sought by American leaders. The smooth functioning of interna…
Kennedy, Oil Imports, and the Fair Trade Doctrine
In his efforts to secure passage of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, John F. Kennedy had to placate not only oil and coal interests at home, but also traditional trade partners like Venezuela abroad, and he also had to foster the broad national security aim of retaining domestic oil reserves. This article argues that Kennedy was able to utilize a fair trade doctrine to gain enactment of legislation that would both lower trade barriers and assist …
Business Is Business
Contrary to expectations, mutual ideological animosity in international affairs does not necessarily spill over into hostility in all areas of contact. British and U.S. officials vilified the new Soviet regime after World War I, for instance, referring to Bolsheviks as rats, thieves, and murderers, while Lenin denounced capitalists as “world marauders.”1 Yet rhetoric did not match economic reality. In the case of Anglo-American relations with the…
American Trade and Power in the 1960s
Journal Article American Trade and Power in the 1960s. By Thomas W. Zeiler. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xvi, 371 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-231-07930-3.) Get access Stephen G. Rabe Stephen G. Rabe University of Texas, Dallas, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1532–1533, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080732 Published: 01 March 1994
Prophesying upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933-1939
Journal Article Prophesying upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933–1939. By Gene A. Sessions. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xvi, 149 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-252-01927-X.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Page 1518, https://do…
Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy
Journal Article Dean Acheson and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy. Ed. by Douglas Brinkley. (New York: St. Martin's, 1993. xxvi, 271 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-312-05016-X.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Page 796, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081381 Published: 01 Se…
American Trade and Power in the 1960s
Drawing from a wide array of previously untapped sources, Thomas Zeiler examines United States foreign trade policy in the 1960s. His study probes the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies as they faced the rise of what was then the six-nation European Economic Community and Japan as trade rivals. Trade policy was influenced by five sources: the international environment, the government, American society, the economy, and individual decisionmakers. Th…
The Politics of Trade: American Political Development and Foreign Economic Policy
Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776
Journal Article Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776. By Alfred E. Eckes Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xxii, 402 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2213-2.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 180–181, https://doi.o…
American Trade Policy, 1923-1995
Journal Article American Trade Policy, 1923–1993. By Edward S. Kaplan. (Westport: Greenwood, 1996. xii, 176 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-313-29480-1.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Page 1452, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953009 Published: 01 March 1997
Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade
Journal Article Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade. By Douglas A. Irwin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xii, 265 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-01138-9.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1050–1051, https://doi.org/10.2307/295…
Managing Protectionism: American Trade Policy in the Early Cold War
Journal Article Managing Protectionism: American Trade Policy in the Early Cold War Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado at Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 22, Issue 3, July 1998, Pages 337–360, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00124 Published: 17 December 2002
Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937
Journal Article Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933–1937. By Michael A. Butler. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. xii, 240 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-596-9.) Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1379–1380, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of Gatt
Journal Article Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. By Thomas W. Zeiler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 267 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2458-5.) Get access Mira Wilkins Mira Wilkins Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 280–281, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568028 Publi…
Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of Gatt
In this era of globalization, it is easy to forget that today's free market values were not always predominant. But as this history of the birth of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) shows, the principles and practices underlying our current international economy once represented contested ground between U.S. policymakers, Congress, and America's closest allies. Drawing on historical and theoretical work in a variety of fields and …
Commanding the Middle: The American Agenda at the Kennedy Round
The Kennedy Round of GATT was an opportunity for Australia and New Zealand to achieve their commercial interests of expanding agricultural exports and adjusting trade flows to the power of the United States, the loss of preferential markets in Britain and the new presence of the European Common Market. Both found commonalities with America, both managed to assert some of their concerns, but both also were decidedly junior and weaker partners to t…
Just Do It! Globalization for Diplomatic Historians
Globalization is marching ahead, whether we like it or not. Advertisers flash dot.com services at us; actress Jamie Lee Curtis travels the world, cell phone in hand; university administrators embrace a total learning environment with technology turning us toward the world. Foot-and-mouth disease, AIDS, and other plagues spread more rapidly and require global containment, due to the economic integration wrought by globalization. Our era, various p…
The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948-63
A decade ago, a debate flared among diplomatic historians regarding Western trade toward the Communist bloc. Centered basically on the notion of American hegemony in the Cold War, contention specifically focused on whether the United States imposed its will on its European friends by trying to limit sales of strategic goods to the Soviet Union. Western European scholars attempted to revise assumptions about U.S. unilateralism by arguing that NATO…
Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II
Unconditional Defeat -the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding stages of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, from November 1943 until September 1945. Thomas W. Zeiler argues that this "war without mercy" could only come to one conclusion: the complete, unconditional defeat of Japan by a mobilized, overwhelming, vengeful United States. Zeiler describes these final 22 months of th…
Prime Time for Progressive Era II
Journal Article Prime Time for Progressive Era II Get access Commanding Heights: Battle for the World Economy. Boston: WGBH Boston Video, 2002. 3 tapes, 6 hours. Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 5, November 2003, Pages 725–728, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00386 Published: 16 October 2003
A night at Delmonico's: The Spalding baseball tour and the imagination of Empire
Entries
The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field
Journal Article The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field Get access Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler Thomas W. Zeiler is professor of history at the University of Colorado. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 95, Issue 4, March 2009, Pages 1053–1073, https://doi.org/10.2307/27694560 Published: 01 March 2009
Companion to World War II
Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II
Jim Lacey. Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Pp. 266. When considering the US production miracle credited for victory in th
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