Robert L Beisner

Biographic Data

ID680128
NAMERobert L Beisner
GIVEN NAMESRobert L
FAMILY NAMEBeisner
SIGNATUREBEISNER R L
AFFILIATIONSAmerican University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS25
WORKS AS AUTHOR29
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX3

  • SHAFR Presidential Address

    Robert L BeisnerARTICLEDiplomatic History2003

  • Patterns of Peril

    Robert L BeisnerARTICLEDiplomatic History1996

    Journal Article Patterns of Peril: Dean Acheson Joins the Cold Warriors, 1945–46 Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 20, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 321–356, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1996.tb00270.x Published: 01 June 2007

  • Veterans at Work

    Robert L BeisnerARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…1994

  • Sino-American Historians and Sino-American Realities

    Robert L Beisner, Harry Harding et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1991

  • History and Henry Kissinger

    Robert L BeisnerARTICLEDiplomatic History1990

    In the fall of 1969, after Chinese and Soviet armies had clashed along their Ussuri River border, Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin bluntly asked National Security Adviser Henry A. Kissinger whether he expected the Russians to launch an all-out attack against China. President Nixon's aide answered “that as a historian, he had to allow for the possibility.”1 Seven years later, in a kind of valedictory of his years in Washington, Kissinger remarked: “As …

  • American Diplomacy and the Pragmatic Tradition

    Robert L Beisner, Cecil V CrabbARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article American Diplomacy and the Pragmatic Tradition. By Cecil V. Crabb, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. xii + 302 pp. $37.50.) Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Page 352, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078761 Published: 01 June 1990

  • America Outside the World

    Open AccessRobert L BeisnerARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1989Cited by: 1

  • Power, Protection, and Free Trade

    Robert L Beisner, David A LakeARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939. By David A. Lake. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiii + 242 pp. $29.95.) Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 622–623, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908059 Pu…

  • Arms at Rest

    Billie Barnes Jensen, Joan R Challinor et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Introduction Part I: War, Peace, and American Culture and Society in the Revolutionary Era May all our Citizens be Soldiers, and all our Soldiers Citizens: The Ambiguities of Female Citizenship in the New Nation by Linda K. Kerber The Problem of Dependency After America Became Independent by David F. Musto Part II: Peace and Expansion Through Commerce, Cooperation, and Singular Initiative Trade as a Precursor of Diplomacy: The Beginnings of Ameri…

  • Writing History and Making Policy

    Robert L Beisner, Richard A MelansonARTICLEJournal of American History1984Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Writing History and Making Policy: The Cold War, Vietnam, and Revisionism. By Richard A. Melanson. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1983. v + 254 pp. Appendix and notes. Cloth, $23.00; paper, $10.25.) Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Page 176, https://doi.o…

  • Benevolent Assimilation

    Robert L Beisner, Stuart Creighton MilleARTICLEThe American Historical Review1983Cited by: 11

  • "Empire Can Wait"

    Robert L Beisner, Thomas J OsborneARTICLEThe American Historical Review1982

  • The Presidency of William McKinley

    Robert L Beisner, Lewis L GouldARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1982

  • Velvet on Iron

    Robert L Beisner, Frederick W Marks et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1980Cited by: 6

    Journal Article Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt. By Frederick W. Marks III. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. xiv + 247 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 2, September 1980, Pages 429–430, https://doi.org/10.2307…

  • John Milton Hay

    Robert L Beisner, Howard I Kushner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1979

    Journal Article John Milton Hay: The Union of Poetry and Politics. By Howard I. Kushner and Anne Hummel Sherrill. (Boston: Twayne, 1977. 217 pp. Illustration, appendix, notes, note on the sources, and index. $9.95.) Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 3, December 1979, Pages 685–686, https://doi.org…

  • David Jayne Hill and the Problem of World Peace

    Robert L Beisner, Aubrey ParkmanARTICLEJournal of American History1976

    Journal Article David Jayne Hill and the Problem of World Peace. By Aubrey Parkman. (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univesity Press, 1975. 293 pp. Illustrations, note, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 1, June 1976, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1909058 Publish…

  • From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900

    David M Pletcher, Robert L BeisnerARTICLEJournal of American History1975

    Journal Article From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865–1900. By Robert L. Beisner. (New York: Crowell, 1975. xi + 162 pp. Bibliographical essay and index.) Get access David M. Pletcher David M. Pletcher Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September 1975, Pages 417–418, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903311 Published: 01 September 1975

  • The Glorious Enterprise

    Robert L Beisner, John MaassARTICLEJournal of American History1974

    Journal Article The Glorious Enterprise: The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and H. J. Schwarzmann, Architect-in-Chief. By John Maass. (Watkins Glen, N.Y.: American Life Foundation, 1973. 156 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.00.) Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 2, Se…

  • US Expansionism

    Open AccessRobert L BeisnerARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1973

  • Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy

    Robert L Beisner, John Braeman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1972

  • And 1968

    Open AccessRobert L BeisnerARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1970

    American commitment in Southeast Asia stalled, and both Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon wooed the electorate with newfound aptitudes for cooing. It was the Year of the Dove. Writers in Sunday supplements began to look around for precedents for this widespread anti-war sentiment, many of them drawing comparisons with the attitude toward the Mexican War of the 1840's. Those who scanned the more recent past, however, and rediscovered the movement …

  • Eleven Against War

    Robert L Beisner, Sondra R HermanARTICLEJournal of American History1970

    Journal Article Eleven Against War: Studies in American Internationalist Thought, 1898–1921. By Sondra R. Herman. (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1969. xiv + 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $8.90; paper, $2.95.) Get access Robert L. Beisner Robert L. Beisner American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 1, June 1970, Pages 190–191, htt…

  • The Great Rapprochement

    Robert L BeisnerARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1970

  • Twelve Against Empire

    Open AccessDavid W Marcell, Robert L BeisnerARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1969Cited by: 3

  • Thirty Years Before Manila

    Open AccessRobert L BeisnerARTICLEHistorian1968

    Notes1. Barbara Ann Morin, “The Reaction of Congress to the Annexation of Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands” (unpublished M.A. thesis, Smith College, 1944), 16; William Belmont Parker, The Life and Public Services of Justin Smith Morrill (Boston, 1924), 229.2. Charles C. Tansill, The United States and Santo Domingo, 1798–1873, a Chapter in Caribbean Diplomacy (Baltimore, 1938), 433.3. Milton Plesur, “Looking Outward: American Attitudes Toward Forei…