Christopher Mcknight Nichols
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Mcknight Nichols |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher Mcknight |
| FAMILY NAME | Nichols |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLS C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6937-5415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Normalizing Relations from the Cold War to the Present: Continuing War, Pursuing Peace, and Building Empire
“Normalization of relations” is a phrase of recent origin, widely used by scholars, politicians, and journalists. Defining normalization, however, is remarkably difficult. While we know a great deal about specific instances of normalization, we lack a sustained study of normalization itself, a gap this article begins to address. Using case studies of U.S. relations with China, Vietnam, and Cuba, this article examines the idea of normalization, it…
Response to reviewers, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
Notes1 Milne has written about ideology (and ideas) in comparative perspective in (Milne Citation2010) and Nichols has written about isolationism as a foreign policy ideological tradition in a number of publications, see: Nichols Citation2018, 296–340).Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristopher McKnight NicholsChristopher McKnight Nichols is Professor of History and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Mershon Cente…
Three Dogs from the Late Iron Age Boat Grave Cemetery at Gamla Uppsala Prästgården, Sweden
Excavations at the vicarage yard ( prästgården ) at the famous Late Iron Age magnate centre of Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, have yielded six Viking Age ( c. ad 750–1100) boat burials, several containing the remains of domestic dogs. The present study is an osteological examination of the remains of three of these dogs, one each from three boat graves, with a primary goal of morphological reconstruction and a secondary focus on identifying sex, age, and…
What Came Next: Reflections on the Aftermath(s) of the 1918–19 Flu Pandemic in the Age of Covid
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Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World
From the opening vignette of “America first” in Donald J. Trump's January 2017 inaugural address to early American republican expressions urging “nonentanglement” in European and world affairs through debates over Cold War liberal internationalism and the unilateralist U.S. responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Charles A. Kupchan's Isolationism firmly establishes the importance of isolationism and isolationist ideas throughout…
Domestic dog skeletons at Valsgärde cemetery, Uppland, Sweden: Quantification and morphological reconstruction
Thirty inhumations have been excavated at the cemetery of Valsgärde in central Sweden, of which twenty-one have been dated to the Vendel Period and Viking Age (c. 550–1100 CE). Of these graves, twelve contain the positively-identifiable remains of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). This study aimed to quantify and describe these dogs in terms of withers height and morphological type (morphotype). A minimum of twenty dogs was identified. The majori…
“Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of Covid-19”
For many us who have studied, researched, written, and taught about the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the current period of the global viral pandemic is eerily and unpleasantly familiar. Today, the rapid global spread of a virus has prompted policies calling for widespread closures, social distancing, constant handwashing, and public mask wearing in additional to other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). We have also seen pushback and resis…
The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-24
Robert E. Hannigan's The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914–24 is one of the best of recent works that seek to explain U.S. diplomacy related to World War I and its aftermath. Hannigan emphasizes patterns and consistencies in U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic thought that shaped the efforts of Woodrow Wilson. The bulk of the book focuses on Wilson and his administration in the periods of neutrality (1914–1917), belligerency (1917–1918),…
A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of rele…
Beyond the Interwar Paradigm
Two of the most important recent trends in the study of US foreign relations intersect in Michael Thompson’s groundbreaking book For God and Globe. The most significant not-so-new but transformativ
The Global Republic: America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power by Frank Ninkovich
Faithfulness in Foreign Relations
There has been a resurgence of studies of faith in American foreign relations in the years since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Andrew Preston’s widely acclaimed Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith is the latest, most sweeping, and best example of renewed interest in the important yet understudied intersection of religion and U.S. foreign policy. There is no other comparable synthesis on this topic and Preston’s erudite account is sure to be…
The Enduring Power of Isolationism: An Historical Perspective
Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
Spreading democracy abroad or taking care of business at home is a tension as current as the war in Afghanistan and as old as America itself. Tracing the history of isolationist and internationalist ideas from the 1890s through the 1930s, Nichols reveals unexpected connections among individuals and groups from across the political spectrum who developed new visions for America's place in the world. From Henry Cabot Lodge and William James to W. E…
US Foreign Policy in Context: National ideology from the founders to the Bush Doctrine
Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Iminent Secularization from the Puritans to Postmodernity
This book explores the surprisingly similar expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American thinkers from the time of the Puritans to modern times. These predictions of “godlessness” in American society — sometimes by those favoring the foreseen future, sometimes by those fearing it — have a history as old as America, and indeed seem crucially intertwined with it. This book shows that there have been and continue to be pattern…
Citizenship and Transnationalism in Randolph Bourne's America
One of the most influential intellectuals of the early twentieth century, Randolph Bourne (1886–1918) was a daring thinker, a brilliant essayist, and an intrepid idealist. He reconceived citizenshi
Solares in Tekax: The Impact of the Sugar Industry on a Nineteenth-Century Yucatecan Town
This article examines incipient capitalism in a frontier town in Yucatán during the years preceding and following independence. It investigates one example in which a rural town is intimately connected to estate development. The town of Tekax, located on the southern frontier in colonial Yucatán, underwent radical change between 1780 and 1830. Political and agrarian upheaval coupled with the increasing production of sugarcane drew Spanish and Cre…
Social Studies of Science
Social Studies of Science
Three Dogs from the Late Iron Age Boat Grave Cemetery at Gamla Uppsala Prästgården, Sweden
Excavations at the vicarage yard ( prästgården ) at the famous Late Iron Age magnate centre of Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, have yielded six Viking Age ( c. ad 750–1100) boat burials, several containing the remains of domestic dogs. The present study is an osteological examination of the remains of three of these dogs, one each from three boat graves, with a primary goal of morphological reconstruction and a secondary focus on identifying sex, age, and…
Solares in Tekax: The Impact of the Sugar Industry on a Nineteenth-Century Yucatecan Town
This article examines incipient capitalism in a frontier town in Yucatán during the years preceding and following independence. It investigates one example in which a rural town is intimately connected to estate development. The town of Tekax, located on the southern frontier in colonial Yucatán, underwent radical change between 1780 and 1830. Political and agrarian upheaval coupled with the increasing production of sugarcane drew Spanish and Cre…
Domestic dog skeletons at Valsgärde cemetery, Uppland, Sweden: Quantification and morphological reconstruction
Thirty inhumations have been excavated at the cemetery of Valsgärde in central Sweden, of which twenty-one have been dated to the Vendel Period and Viking Age (c. 550–1100 CE). Of these graves, twelve contain the positively-identifiable remains of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). This study aimed to quantify and describe these dogs in terms of withers height and morphological type (morphotype). A minimum of twenty dogs was identified. The majori…
US Foreign Policy in Context: National ideology from the founders to the Bush Doctrine
Social Studies of Science
Solares in Tekax: The Impact of the Sugar Industry on a Nineteenth-Century Yucatecan Town
This article examines incipient capitalism in a frontier town in Yucatán during the years preceding and following independence. It investigates one example in which a rural town is intimately connected to estate development. The town of Tekax, located on the southern frontier in colonial Yucatán, underwent radical change between 1780 and 1830. Political and agrarian upheaval coupled with the increasing production of sugarcane drew Spanish and Cre…
Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Iminent Secularization from the Puritans to Postmodernity
This book explores the surprisingly similar expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American thinkers from the time of the Puritans to modern times. These predictions of “godlessness” in American society — sometimes by those favoring the foreseen future, sometimes by those fearing it — have a history as old as America, and indeed seem crucially intertwined with it. This book shows that there have been and continue to be pattern…
Citizenship and Transnationalism in Randolph Bourne's America
One of the most influential intellectuals of the early twentieth century, Randolph Bourne (1886–1918) was a daring thinker, a brilliant essayist, and an intrepid idealist. He reconceived citizenshi
Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
Spreading democracy abroad or taking care of business at home is a tension as current as the war in Afghanistan and as old as America itself. Tracing the history of isolationist and internationalist ideas from the 1890s through the 1930s, Nichols reveals unexpected connections among individuals and groups from across the political spectrum who developed new visions for America's place in the world. From Henry Cabot Lodge and William James to W. E…
US Foreign Policy in Context: National ideology from the founders to the Bush Doctrine
The Enduring Power of Isolationism: An Historical Perspective
Faithfulness in Foreign Relations
There has been a resurgence of studies of faith in American foreign relations in the years since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Andrew Preston’s widely acclaimed Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith is the latest, most sweeping, and best example of renewed interest in the important yet understudied intersection of religion and U.S. foreign policy. There is no other comparable synthesis on this topic and Preston’s erudite account is sure to be…
The Global Republic: America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power by Frank Ninkovich
A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of rele…
Beyond the Interwar Paradigm
Two of the most important recent trends in the study of US foreign relations intersect in Michael Thompson’s groundbreaking book For God and Globe. The most significant not-so-new but transformativ
The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-24
Robert E. Hannigan's The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914–24 is one of the best of recent works that seek to explain U.S. diplomacy related to World War I and its aftermath. Hannigan emphasizes patterns and consistencies in U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic thought that shaped the efforts of Woodrow Wilson. The bulk of the book focuses on Wilson and his administration in the periods of neutrality (1914–1917), belligerency (1917–1918),…
“Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of Covid-19”
For many us who have studied, researched, written, and taught about the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the current period of the global viral pandemic is eerily and unpleasantly familiar. Today, the rapid global spread of a virus has prompted policies calling for widespread closures, social distancing, constant handwashing, and public mask wearing in additional to other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). We have also seen pushback and resis…
Domestic dog skeletons at Valsgärde cemetery, Uppland, Sweden: Quantification and morphological reconstruction
Thirty inhumations have been excavated at the cemetery of Valsgärde in central Sweden, of which twenty-one have been dated to the Vendel Period and Viking Age (c. 550–1100 CE). Of these graves, twelve contain the positively-identifiable remains of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). This study aimed to quantify and describe these dogs in terms of withers height and morphological type (morphotype). A minimum of twenty dogs was identified. The majori…
What Came Next: Reflections on the Aftermath(s) of the 1918–19 Flu Pandemic in the Age of Covid
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World
From the opening vignette of “America first” in Donald J. Trump's January 2017 inaugural address to early American republican expressions urging “nonentanglement” in European and world affairs through debates over Cold War liberal internationalism and the unilateralist U.S. responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Charles A. Kupchan's Isolationism firmly establishes the importance of isolationism and isolationist ideas throughout…
Response to reviewers, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
Notes1 Milne has written about ideology (and ideas) in comparative perspective in (Milne Citation2010) and Nichols has written about isolationism as a foreign policy ideological tradition in a number of publications, see: Nichols Citation2018, 296–340).Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristopher McKnight NicholsChristopher McKnight Nichols is Professor of History and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Mershon Cente…
Three Dogs from the Late Iron Age Boat Grave Cemetery at Gamla Uppsala Prästgården, Sweden
Excavations at the vicarage yard ( prästgården ) at the famous Late Iron Age magnate centre of Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, have yielded six Viking Age ( c. ad 750–1100) boat burials, several containing the remains of domestic dogs. The present study is an osteological examination of the remains of three of these dogs, one each from three boat graves, with a primary goal of morphological reconstruction and a secondary focus on identifying sex, age, and…
Normalizing Relations from the Cold War to the Present: Continuing War, Pursuing Peace, and Building Empire
“Normalization of relations” is a phrase of recent origin, widely used by scholars, politicians, and journalists. Defining normalization, however, is remarkably difficult. While we know a great deal about specific instances of normalization, we lack a sustained study of normalization itself, a gap this article begins to address. Using case studies of U.S. relations with China, Vietnam, and Cuba, this article examines the idea of normalization, it…
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