H W Brands

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ID510739
NAMEH W Brands
GIVEN NAMESH W
FAMILY NAMEBrands
SIGNATUREBRANDS H W
AFFILIATIONSTexas A&M University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS76
TOTAL CITATIONS64
AUTHOR COUNT76
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX5

  • Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines

    H W BrandsDATASETThe SHAFR Guide Online2017Cited by: 6

    From the day Commodore Dewey's battleships destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila to the closing of the Subic Bay naval base in 1992, America and the Philippines have shared a long and tangled history. It has been a century of war and colonialism, earnest reforms and blatant corruption, diplomatic maneuvering and political intrigue, an era colored by dramatic events and striking personalities. In Bound to Empire, acclaimed historian H.W. Brands gi…

  • Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era

    Open AccessH W BrandsARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2014Cited by: 1

  • A Question of Power-and a Partial Answer

    H W BrandsARTICLEDiplomatic History2009

    Journal Article A Question of Power—and a Partial Answer Get access Leffler Melvyn P.. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. New York: Hill & Wang, 2007. xx + 586pp. Notes, illustrations, index. $35.00 (cloth).Fursenko Aleksandr Naftali Timothy. Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. 670pp. Notes, illustrations, index. $19.95 (paper).Zubok Vladislav…

  • The Coils of Empire

    H W Brands, Hal BrandsARTICLEDiplomatic History2009

    At this late date, any author who puts “race” and “empire” in the title of a book on the United States and the Philippines has some explaining to do. These twin constructs have rarely been separated since their conjoining, in the U.S.-Philippine context, in 1898, and they have figured centrally in nearly every academic work on the subject for the last quarter century. The jaded reader may be forgiven for wondering what more can profitably be said…

  • The Road to Baghdad: The United States and the Persian Gulf

    H W Brands, Hal BrandsARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2006

    At first it was the oil. The countries of the Persian Gulf—Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—control more than half the world's petroleum. In the 1940s and 1950s, when American interest initially turned toward the region, the United States remained a net exporter of oil, but American leaders feared that a disruption of the oil flow from the Gulf to Europe would threaten the stability of America's Europ…

  • Presidential Doctrines: An Introduction

    Open AccessH W BrandsARTICLEPresidential Studies Quarterly2006Cited by: 2

  • The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

    H W BrandsREVIEWJournal of American History2006

    International history is as hard as ever. For a time during the Cold War, historians of that contest imagined that if they could ever get into the archives of the Soviet Union and its allies, they would be able to bring balance and perspective to what till then was a lopsided story based on records from the West and conjecture regarding the East. To their amazement—and everyone else's—the Berlin Wall came down, the eastern bloc imploded, and the …

  • Andrew Jackson

    Walter Russell Mead, Sean Wilentz et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2006

  • Command of Office: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush

    Open AccessH W BrandsARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2005

    Journal Article Command of Office: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush Get access Command of Office: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Stephen Graubard. New York, Basic Books, 2004. 560 pp. $30.00. H. W. Brands H. W. Brands University of Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…

  • Woodrow Wilson and the Irony of Fate

    H W Brands, Hal BrandsARTICLEDiplomatic History2004

    Every biography of Woodrow Wilson, and nearly every account of his foreign policy, includes a remark he uttered on the eve of his 1913 inauguration. “It would be the irony of fate,” Wilson said, “if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.”1 Yet the full extent of the irony is often overlooked. Wilson was referring to the fact that his own training for the presidency, such as it was, lay almost entirely on the domestic side of …

  • George Bush and the Gulf War of 1991

    Open AccessH W BrandsARTICLEPresidential Studies Quarterly2004Cited by: 2

    On August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. Within 24 hours they controlled that small country. On January 16, 1991, President George Bush ordered U.S. military forces into battle to undo the Iraqi conquest and liberate Kuwait. The president's decision for war came in several stages. In the first stage, which lasted hardly longer than it took for Saddam Hussein's troops to subdue Kuwait, Bush determined that Iraqi soldiers must be expelled fr…

  • A Very Peculiar Institution

    H W Brands, Hal BrandsARTICLEDiplomatic History2003

    What obligation does the United States owe to suffering and oppressed peoples around the world? Most Americans would agree that, at a minimum, the United States should not be doing the oppressing or inflicting the suffering, certainly not without compelling reason. (Is the current war on terrorism compelling enough to allow the killing of countless Iraqi noncombatants? Opinions differ.) Many—probably most—Americans would go further and say that t…

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Walter Russell Mead, H W BrandsARTICLEForeign Affairs2003

  • The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

    John Ferling, H W BrandsARTICLEJournal of American History2002

  • Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History

    Melvin Small, Martin J Medhurst et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Journal Article Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History. Ed. by Martin J. Medhurst and H. W. Brands. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. ix, 281 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-943-4.) Get access Melvin Small Melvin Small Wayne State UniversityDetroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Page 290, https://d…

  • Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964

    H W Brands, Andrew J RotterARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    If Indians and Americans had understood each other better, would relations between their two countries have been any more fruitful? This is the question that lurks behind Andrew J. Rotter's study, although he does not put it so plainly. And it is a question that, mutatis mutandis, applies to much of the “new diplomatic history.” The practitioners of this recent variant of one of the historical profession's oldest subdisciplines employ the tools o…

  • Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History

    Paul G Pierpaoli, Martin J Medhurst et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2001

    Rhetoric and history intersected dramatically during the Cold War, which was, above all else, a war of words. This volume, which combines the work of historians and communication scholars, examines the public discourse in Cold War America from a number of perspectives including how rhetoric shaped history and policies and how rhetorical images invited interpretations of history. The book opens with Norman Graebner's wideranging analysis of the rh…

  • Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey

    Anthony Slaven, H W BrandsARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey. By H. W. Brands. (New York: Free Press, 1999. xii, 354 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-684-85473-2.) Get access A. Slaven A. Slaven University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 11…

  • The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam

    Lloyd C Gardner, Lloyd Gardner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam. Ed. by H. W. Brands. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. vi, 194 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-873-X.) Get access Lloyd Gardner Lloyd Gardner Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1117–1118, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…

  • The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War

    H W Brands, David L SneadARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    (print) x, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

  • Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991

    Robert D Schulzinger, David Mayers et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991. By David Mayers. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. viii, 184 pp. and What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy. By H. W. Brands. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 335 pp. Get access Robert D. Schulzinger Robert D. Schulzinger University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …

  • The Idea of the National Interest

    Open AccessH W BrandsCHAPTERAmbiguous Legacy1999

    Prior to diplomacy is policy, which guides the diplomats in their actions; prior to policy are the ideas that inhabit the heads of the policymakers, shaping their perceptions of the world and informing their responses to those perceptions. Monarchs and dictators may manage to determine policy on the basis of narrow notions of personal self-interest, although most even of the autocratic sort persuade or delude themselves of a coincidence between s…

  • The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the 'American Century'

    Open AccessHenry R Luce, Tony Smith et al.BOOKAmbiguous Legacy1999

    This collection of essays assesses the record of American foreign policy over the course of the twentieth century. The essays comprise the work of political scientists as well as historians, conservatives as well as liberals, foreign scholars as well as Americans. Taking off from Henry Luce's vision of an 'American century', the authors discuss such important topics as the American conception of the national interest, the tension between democrac…

  • The Idea of the National Interest

    H W BrandsARTICLEDiplomatic History1999

    Prior to diplomacy is policy, which guides the diplomats in their actions; prior to policy are the ideas that inhabit the heads of the policymakers, shaping their perceptions of the world and informing their responses to those perceptions. Monarchs and dictators may manage to determine policy on the basis of narrow notions of personal self-interest, although most even of the autocratic sort persuade or delude themselves of a coincidence between s…

  • Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War

    H W Brands, Campbell CraigARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War. By Campbell Craig. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xviii, 216 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-231-11122-3. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-231-11123-1.) Get access H. W. Brands H. W. Brands Texas A&M University College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 83…