Thomas A Breslin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas A Breslin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Breslin |
| SIGNATURE | BRESLIN T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9132-0607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
This collection of essays by a distinguished historian of American foreign relations illustrates a professional career stretching from student troubled by the Vietnam War to archival denizen engaged in intense academic disputes to citizen proclaiming lessons of history in a wider forum. Much of his career, Melvyn P. Leffler writes, was spent wrestling with the possibilities of reconciling ‘revisionism’ and ‘realism’ and analyzing how perceptions …
Beyond Pain
Breslin demonstrates that, for two millennia, states in East Asia, Europe, and America have successfully used pleasure to protect themselves and advance their interests, at a small fraction of the cost of militarized policies. Indeed, the Chinese demonstrated that pleasure-based policies primed a stream of highly profitable foreign trade and bolstered the state. Pleasure was feared because it was effective as both an offensive and defensive strat…
Cold War and Revolution
Journal Article Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. By Odd Arne Westad. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiv, 260 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-231-07984-2. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-07985-0.) Get access Thomas A. Breslin Thomas A. Breslin Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
The Devil Soldier
Journal Article The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward. By Caleb Carr. (New York: Random House, 1992. xiv + 366 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-679-41114-3.) Get access Thomas A. Breslin Thomas A. Breslin Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1611–1612, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080269 Published: 01 March 1993
An Ordinary Relationship
Journal Article An Ordinary Relationship: American Opposition to Republican Revolution in China. By Daniel M. Crane and Thomas A. Breslin (Miami: Florida International University Press, 1986. xxii + 225 pp. $25.00.) Get access Key Ray Chong Key Ray Chong Texas Tech University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary
Journal Article China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary. By Thomas A. Breslin. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. ix + 144 pp. Maps, notes, principal sources consulted, and index. $15.95.) Get access Robert F. McClellan Robert F. McClellan Northern Michigan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Page 170, http…
Mystifying the past
Historians have played an important role in modern America. While the chorus in Sigmund Romberg's musical The Student Prince bellows, "History's a mystery," off the wooden stage and in the world of concrete and asphalt where we live our lives, historical knowledge is something other than mystery. It has been and is a major force in shaping our self-images and expectations. It can be a potent weapon for manipulating society or for resisting manipu…
Trouble over oil
[M]ore alarming [than the phenomenal expansion of Japan's overseas trade], for the moment at least, in relation to the question of United States-Japanese relations, from the point of view of peace or war, is the fact that, notice of the termination of the naval treaties having been given, both Japan and the United States are making special efforts to increase their naval forces and the American Government and American interests are engaged in the…
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
This collection of essays by a distinguished historian of American foreign relations illustrates a professional career stretching from student troubled by the Vietnam War to archival denizen engaged in intense academic disputes to citizen proclaiming lessons of history in a wider forum. Much of his career, Melvyn P. Leffler writes, was spent wrestling with the possibilities of reconciling ‘revisionism’ and ‘realism’ and analyzing how perceptions …
Cold War and Revolution
Journal Article Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. By Odd Arne Westad. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiv, 260 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-231-07984-2. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-07985-0.) Get access Thomas A. Breslin Thomas A. Breslin Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary
Journal Article China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary. By Thomas A. Breslin. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. ix + 144 pp. Maps, notes, principal sources consulted, and index. $15.95.) Get access Robert F. McClellan Robert F. McClellan Northern Michigan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Page 170, http…
Mystifying the past
Historians have played an important role in modern America. While the chorus in Sigmund Romberg's musical The Student Prince bellows, "History's a mystery," off the wooden stage and in the world of concrete and asphalt where we live our lives, historical knowledge is something other than mystery. It has been and is a major force in shaping our self-images and expectations. It can be a potent weapon for manipulating society or for resisting manipu…
Trouble over oil
[M]ore alarming [than the phenomenal expansion of Japan's overseas trade], for the moment at least, in relation to the question of United States-Japanese relations, from the point of view of peace or war, is the fact that, notice of the termination of the naval treaties having been given, both Japan and the United States are making special efforts to increase their naval forces and the American Government and American interests are engaged in the…
Mystifying the past
Historians have played an important role in modern America. While the chorus in Sigmund Romberg's musical The Student Prince bellows, "History's a mystery," off the wooden stage and in the world of concrete and asphalt where we live our lives, historical knowledge is something other than mystery. It has been and is a major force in shaping our self-images and expectations. It can be a potent weapon for manipulating society or for resisting manipu…
China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary
Journal Article China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary. By Thomas A. Breslin. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. ix + 144 pp. Maps, notes, principal sources consulted, and index. $15.95.) Get access Robert F. McClellan Robert F. McClellan Northern Michigan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Page 170, http…
An Ordinary Relationship
Journal Article An Ordinary Relationship: American Opposition to Republican Revolution in China. By Daniel M. Crane and Thomas A. Breslin (Miami: Florida International University Press, 1986. xxii + 225 pp. $25.00.) Get access Key Ray Chong Key Ray Chong Texas Tech University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
The Devil Soldier
Journal Article The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward. By Caleb Carr. (New York: Random House, 1992. xiv + 366 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-679-41114-3.) Get access Thomas A. Breslin Thomas A. Breslin Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1611–1612, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080269 Published: 01 March 1993
Cold War and Revolution
Journal Article Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. By Odd Arne Westad. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiv, 260 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-231-07984-2. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-07985-0.) Get access Thomas A. Breslin Thomas A. Breslin Florida International University, Miami, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Amer…
Beyond Pain
Breslin demonstrates that, for two millennia, states in East Asia, Europe, and America have successfully used pleasure to protect themselves and advance their interests, at a small fraction of the cost of militarized policies. Indeed, the Chinese demonstrated that pleasure-based policies primed a stream of highly profitable foreign trade and bolstered the state. Pleasure was feared because it was effective as both an offensive and defensive strat…
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
This collection of essays by a distinguished historian of American foreign relations illustrates a professional career stretching from student troubled by the Vietnam War to archival denizen engaged in intense academic disputes to citizen proclaiming lessons of history in a wider forum. Much of his career, Melvyn P. Leffler writes, was spent wrestling with the possibilities of reconciling ‘revisionism’ and ‘realism’ and analyzing how perceptions …
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