Mary Ann Heiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Ann Heiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Heiss |
| SIGNATURE | HEISS M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
It’s the Sources, Stupid
Journal Article It's the Sources, Stupid Get access David S. Painter and Gregory Brew. The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 324 pp. $32.95 (paperback). Mary Ann Heiss Mary Ann Heiss [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhae009, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhae009 Published: 22 February 20…
Presidential Cold War Doctrines: What Are They Good For
Presidential Cold War Doctrines: What Are They Good For?
Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance
Rare is the day when an element of the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia fails to make the news. It may seem, in fact, that despite their many differences, the two nations have always had close connections and intertwined interests. Victor Robert McFarland's Oil Powers carefully explicates the origins and development of the bilateral relationship, demonstrating conclusively that even in the absence of any formal treaty or ag…
T imothy A ndrews S ayle . Enduring Alliance: A History of Nato and the Postwar Global Order
The last seventy years have seen no shortage of predictions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s imminent demise. As Timothy Andrews Sayle’s timely Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order makes abundantly clear, those predictions were—and remain—premature. Drawing on a dizzying array of published and archival sources, Sayle presents a masterful analysis of what the alliance has been, what bound its members togethe…
Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War
Matthew K. Shannon's creatively conceived, deeply researched, and tightly argued study of the experiences of Iranian students in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s offers a host of fresh insights into both the bilateral U.S.-Iran relationship and the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Although Shannon demonstrates that U.S.-trained Iranians in technical and military fields accomplished their goal of helping solidify Cold War ties with the nat…
Bridging the Gap between the OSS and the CIA
David Alvarez and the late Eduard Mark’s Spying through a Glass Darkly fills a large lacuna in the historiography of U.S. intelligence: the interregnum between the deactivation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1945 and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947. As the authors rightly note, while both of those organizations have been well covered in the literature, almost nothing is known about the organization th…
Why I'm Trying to Bring the World In
Toward “Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable”: A History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series by William B. McAllister, Joshua Botts, Peter Cozzens, and Aaron W. Marrs
Meg Jacobs. Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
Early on in her wonderfully insightful Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s, while discussing growing environmentalist concerns about the multipronged costs of the U.S. dependence on fossil fuels, Meg Jacobs quotes ecologist Barry Commoner’s adage “Everything is connected to everything else” (25). Beyond its applicability in that specific context, the idea of interconnectedness serves as an…
Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933-1973
Making excellent use of a variety of public and private materials, Chad H. Parker's Making the Desert Modern dissects the operations of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) during the four decades of its exclusive control of the Saudi oil industry. On one level, Aramco functioned like any private profit-driven entity, seeking from the start of its concession in 1933 to create the best possible environment for its operations. Among the challe…
Exposing “Red Colonialism”: U.S. Propaganda at the United Nations, 1953–1963
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the United States sought to challenge the Soviet Union's credibility as a champion of decolonization by casting Soviet control of Central Asia, the Baltic republics, and Eastern Europe in imperial terms, or what U.S. officials came to call “Red Colonialism.” Waged in large measure at the United Nations (UN) and other international forums, the Red Colonialism campaign sought to contrast the evolutionary nature of West…
Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations
Journal Article Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Get access Charlene Mires. (New York: New York University Press, 2013. 319 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1258–1259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau106 Published: 01 March 2014
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
David Vine's Island of Shame is a sobering account of the development of the highly secret U.S. military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and the cost the island's indigenous people, the Chagossians, paid for its construction. At the height of the decolonization movement in 1965, Diego Garcia was detached from the soon-to-be-independent British colony of Mauritius and joined with three other island groups associated with the Seychelles (A…
The Oil Hunters: Exploration and Espionage in the Middle East
Culture and U.S. Relations with the Middle East
Many factors come together to shape U.S. foreign policy. Economic needs, strategic and military considerations, domestic political pressures, commitments to allies, worries about national credibility, and a host of other influences all exert differing degrees of sway on the nation's diplomatic affairs. Also important, though more difficult to determine, are cultural ideas or assumptions, whether expressed popularly or in official policy pronounce…
The Evolution of the Imperial Idea and U.S. National Identity
The supposed truisms of the U.S. position on empire and imperialism – what I have chosen to call here the “imperial idea” – are well known.1 As a nation itself born through revolution against imperial control, the United States has purportedly disdained imperialism, both in the policies of other nations and in its own. The taking of colonies and the seeking of empire were considered to be the pursuits of other nations, not the United States. On t…
Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945
Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954
The United States, Great Britain, and the Creation of the Iranian Oil Consortium, 1953–1954
(1994). The United States, Great Britain, and the Creation of the Iranian Oil Consortium, 1953–1954. The International History Review: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 511-535
Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
David Vine's Island of Shame is a sobering account of the development of the highly secret U.S. military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and the cost the island's indigenous people, the Chagossians, paid for its construction. At the height of the decolonization movement in 1965, Diego Garcia was detached from the soon-to-be-independent British colony of Mauritius and joined with three other island groups associated with the Seychelles (A…
Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance
Rare is the day when an element of the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia fails to make the news. It may seem, in fact, that despite their many differences, the two nations have always had close connections and intertwined interests. Victor Robert McFarland's Oil Powers carefully explicates the origins and development of the bilateral relationship, demonstrating conclusively that even in the absence of any formal treaty or ag…
Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933-1973
Making excellent use of a variety of public and private materials, Chad H. Parker's Making the Desert Modern dissects the operations of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) during the four decades of its exclusive control of the Saudi oil industry. On one level, Aramco functioned like any private profit-driven entity, seeking from the start of its concession in 1933 to create the best possible environment for its operations. Among the challe…
Exposing “Red Colonialism”: U.S. Propaganda at the United Nations, 1953–1963
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the United States sought to challenge the Soviet Union's credibility as a champion of decolonization by casting Soviet control of Central Asia, the Baltic republics, and Eastern Europe in imperial terms, or what U.S. officials came to call “Red Colonialism.” Waged in large measure at the United Nations (UN) and other international forums, the Red Colonialism campaign sought to contrast the evolutionary nature of West…
Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War
Matthew K. Shannon's creatively conceived, deeply researched, and tightly argued study of the experiences of Iranian students in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s offers a host of fresh insights into both the bilateral U.S.-Iran relationship and the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Although Shannon demonstrates that U.S.-trained Iranians in technical and military fields accomplished their goal of helping solidify Cold War ties with the nat…
Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations
Journal Article Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Get access Charlene Mires. (New York: New York University Press, 2013. 319 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1258–1259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau106 Published: 01 March 2014
The United States, Great Britain, and the Creation of the Iranian Oil Consortium, 1953–1954
(1994). The United States, Great Britain, and the Creation of the Iranian Oil Consortium, 1953–1954. The International History Review: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 511-535
The United States, Great Britain, and the Creation of the Iranian Oil Consortium, 1953–1954
(1994). The United States, Great Britain, and the Creation of the Iranian Oil Consortium, 1953–1954. The International History Review: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 511-535
Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954
Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945
The Evolution of the Imperial Idea and U.S. National Identity
The supposed truisms of the U.S. position on empire and imperialism – what I have chosen to call here the “imperial idea” – are well known.1 As a nation itself born through revolution against imperial control, the United States has purportedly disdained imperialism, both in the policies of other nations and in its own. The taking of colonies and the seeking of empire were considered to be the pursuits of other nations, not the United States. On t…
Culture and U.S. Relations with the Middle East
Many factors come together to shape U.S. foreign policy. Economic needs, strategic and military considerations, domestic political pressures, commitments to allies, worries about national credibility, and a host of other influences all exert differing degrees of sway on the nation's diplomatic affairs. Also important, though more difficult to determine, are cultural ideas or assumptions, whether expressed popularly or in official policy pronounce…
The Oil Hunters: Exploration and Espionage in the Middle East
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
David Vine's Island of Shame is a sobering account of the development of the highly secret U.S. military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and the cost the island's indigenous people, the Chagossians, paid for its construction. At the height of the decolonization movement in 1965, Diego Garcia was detached from the soon-to-be-independent British colony of Mauritius and joined with three other island groups associated with the Seychelles (A…
Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations
Journal Article Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Get access Charlene Mires. (New York: New York University Press, 2013. 319 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1258–1259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau106 Published: 01 March 2014
Exposing “Red Colonialism”: U.S. Propaganda at the United Nations, 1953–1963
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the United States sought to challenge the Soviet Union's credibility as a champion of decolonization by casting Soviet control of Central Asia, the Baltic republics, and Eastern Europe in imperial terms, or what U.S. officials came to call “Red Colonialism.” Waged in large measure at the United Nations (UN) and other international forums, the Red Colonialism campaign sought to contrast the evolutionary nature of West…
Toward “Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable”: A History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series by William B. McAllister, Joshua Botts, Peter Cozzens, and Aaron W. Marrs
Meg Jacobs. Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
Early on in her wonderfully insightful Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s, while discussing growing environmentalist concerns about the multipronged costs of the U.S. dependence on fossil fuels, Meg Jacobs quotes ecologist Barry Commoner’s adage “Everything is connected to everything else” (25). Beyond its applicability in that specific context, the idea of interconnectedness serves as an…
Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933-1973
Making excellent use of a variety of public and private materials, Chad H. Parker's Making the Desert Modern dissects the operations of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) during the four decades of its exclusive control of the Saudi oil industry. On one level, Aramco functioned like any private profit-driven entity, seeking from the start of its concession in 1933 to create the best possible environment for its operations. Among the challe…
Bridging the Gap between the OSS and the CIA
David Alvarez and the late Eduard Mark’s Spying through a Glass Darkly fills a large lacuna in the historiography of U.S. intelligence: the interregnum between the deactivation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1945 and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947. As the authors rightly note, while both of those organizations have been well covered in the literature, almost nothing is known about the organization th…
Why I'm Trying to Bring the World In
Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War
Matthew K. Shannon's creatively conceived, deeply researched, and tightly argued study of the experiences of Iranian students in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s offers a host of fresh insights into both the bilateral U.S.-Iran relationship and the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Although Shannon demonstrates that U.S.-trained Iranians in technical and military fields accomplished their goal of helping solidify Cold War ties with the nat…
T imothy A ndrews S ayle . Enduring Alliance: A History of Nato and the Postwar Global Order
The last seventy years have seen no shortage of predictions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s imminent demise. As Timothy Andrews Sayle’s timely Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order makes abundantly clear, those predictions were—and remain—premature. Drawing on a dizzying array of published and archival sources, Sayle presents a masterful analysis of what the alliance has been, what bound its members togethe…
Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance
Rare is the day when an element of the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia fails to make the news. It may seem, in fact, that despite their many differences, the two nations have always had close connections and intertwined interests. Victor Robert McFarland's Oil Powers carefully explicates the origins and development of the bilateral relationship, demonstrating conclusively that even in the absence of any formal treaty or ag…
It’s the Sources, Stupid
Journal Article It's the Sources, Stupid Get access David S. Painter and Gregory Brew. The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 324 pp. $32.95 (paperback). Mary Ann Heiss Mary Ann Heiss [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhae009, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhae009 Published: 22 February 20…
Presidential Cold War Doctrines: What Are They Good For
Presidential Cold War Doctrines: What Are They Good For?
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