W Michael Weis

Biographic Data

ID617226
NAMEW Michael Weis
GIVEN NAMESW Michael
FAMILY NAMEWeis
SIGNATUREWEIS W M
AFFILIATIONSIllinois Wesleyan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • The Right Kind of Revolution

    W Michael WeisARTICLEJournal of American History2012Cited by: 16

    Since the end of the Cold War there has been an enormous increase in scholarship by historians of U.S. foreign relations on American efforts to “modernize” or develop the poorest areas of the world after World War II. Michael E. Latham has been at the forefront of this research. Indeed, his Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era (2000) started the trend and is rightly considered a classic study…

  • Brasil, Argentina e Estados Unidos

    W Michael WeisARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2004

    Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira is one of the best-known scholars of Brazilian foreign relations and probably the most respected scholar in that field since Jose Honorio Rodrigues. His 1978 classic, Presença dos Estados Unidos no Brasil (dois séculos de história), has been updated into a two-volume set. He has also written a history of the Cuban Revolution, one of the better single-volume histories of the João Goulart administration, and numerous oth…

  • The Twilight of Pan-Americanism

    W Michael WeisARTICLEThe International History Review2001Cited by: 4

    the time John F. Kennedy became president of the United States in 1961, both US-Latin American relations and the region's economic problems had reached crisis proportions. On 13 March, only seven weeks after his inauguration, Kennedy proposed the Alliance for Progress, which, in his words, was to be a 'vast cooperative effort unparalleled in magnitude and nobility of purpose, to satisfy the basic needs of the American people for homes, work and l…

  • Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953-1961

    W Michael Weis, Michael D GamboneARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953–1961. By Michael D. Gambone. (Westport: Praeger, 1997. 247 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-275-95943-0.) Get access W. Michael Weis W. Michael Weis Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1659–1660, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568391 Publishe…

  • Africa, Asia, and Latin America

    Open AccessJ Gordon, Ralph A Austen et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1998

  • Cold Warriors and Coups d'Etat

    John H Williams, W Michael WeisARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1997

  • Cold Warriors and Coups d'Etat

    Jordan Young, W Michael WeisARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Cold Warriors and Coups d'Etat: Brazilian-American Relations, 1945–1964. By W. Michael Weis. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. x, 262 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8263-1400-7.) Get access Jordan Young Jordan Young Pace University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 797–798, https://doi.org/10.2307…

  • A Diplomatic Pearl Harbor? Richard Nixon's Goodwill Mission to Latin America in 1958

    Marvin R Zahniser, W Michael WeisARTICLEDiplomatic History1989

    Journal Article A Diplomatic Pearl Harbor? Richard Nixon's Goodwill Mission to Latin America in 1958 Get access Marvin R. Zahniser, Marvin R. Zahniser MARVIN R. ZAHNISER is professor of history and associate dean of humanities at the Ohio State University. He has authored Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Founding Father (1967) and Uncertain Friendship: American-French Relations through the Cold War (1975). He is now at work on a book concerning the U…