David Mayers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 999606 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Mayers |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Mayers |
| ASSINATURA | MAYERS D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A Calculated Restraint
Seekers and Partisans
This book recounts the tales of individual Americans, some well-known and some not, who strove to understand their nation and its place in the world in the roiled years 1935–41. David Mayers identifies these individuals as 'seekers' and 'partisans.' Primarily disillusioned idealists, both on the left and right, they hurried from America to explore and be part of a different world. Among those featured are John Robinson, a Black aviator who in 193…
Freelance Revolutionist
Agnes Smedley is one of the more fascinating figures in the history of Sino-American relations. Albeit once the subject of two excellent biographies, and alternately celebrated and reviled in the United States, she nevertheless remains a relatively obscure figure. As the Sino-American relationship now occupies a crucial place in international politics, it is worthwhile to revisit the career of this ardent feminist and political pilgrim. Amidst th…
The Lure of Ethiopia and the Saga of Colonel John Robinson, 1935–1937
Troy, Carthage and the Victorians
Reviewed by: Troy, Carthage and the Victorians: The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination by Rachel Bryant Davies David Mayer TROY, CARTHAGE AND THE VICTORIANS: THE DRAMA OF CLASSICAL RUINS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IMAGINATION. By Rachel Bryant Davies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018; pp. 402. Rachel Bryant Davies's Troy, Carthage and the Victorians is best recognized as a significant work of British cultural…
Crossing to Safety from Cold War America
This analysis probes the interwoven careers and lives of two distinguished American diplomats, John Paton Davies, Jr. and George Frost Kennan. These Foreign Service officers, who rose to prominence in the years immediately after the Second World War, were embroiled in the formulation and implementation of controversial policy during the early Cold War. The experience of Davies and Kennan illustrates the domestic hazards that have dogged American …
Destruction Repaired and Destruction Anticipated
This analysis examines the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the Acheson-Lilienthal project and brings into conversation their drafting histories, politics, and diplomacy. Placing them in the same analytical framework, something not hitherto done in the literature, this essay traces the saga of UNRRA and Acheson-Lilienthal and their tandem cold-war fates. As peoples and governments pick their way through the huma…
Humanity in 1948
By approving prohibitions on genocide and embracing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations in 1948 sustained a theory premised on the centrality of people—both in their collective and individual capacities—that enjoyed primacy over the claims of the sovereign state. This affirmation of human rights dovetailed with the UN’s earlier endorsement of the Nuremberg principles with their emphasis on personal accountability.…
John Gilbert Winant, 1941â 46
Gaddis, Kennan, and the Cold War
Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the …
Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power
The Great American Mission
David Ekbladh. The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi. 386. Most twentieth-century Americans
The Great Patriotic War, FDR's Embassy Moscow, and Soviet–US Relations
The focus of this essay is on the intersection of policy, conceived in Washington, and the lived experiences of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's diplomats in the USSR during 1939–45. Roosevelt employed three men as ambassadors. The first was Laurence Steinhardt. His residency in Moscow began fewer than two weeks before the signing of the Soviet–German nonaggression pact (23 August 1939) and ran through mid-November 1941. He was persuaded by the time h…
Liberty of Contract
Neither War Nor Peace
American policy toward Germany in the years before Pearl Harbor can be approached from any number of angles. A rich literature already exists that emphasizes the geopolitical dimension of the German–U.S. relationship, as well as its economic and ideological complexities. I shall here explore an interpretative line that has been less fully developed in the historiography, namely, the viewpoint of U.S. diplomats posted in Berlin. Their experience i…
Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power
This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one hundred and fifty years saw the expansion of the United States from fragile republic to transcontinental giant. David Mayers explores the dissenting voices which accompanied this dramatic ascent, focusing on dissenters within the political and military establishment and on the recurrent patterns of di…
Cold War Scholars and Thinking about Warfare
Only a handful of intellectuals in U.S. history have occupied positions of highest political authority. And when placed in charge, scholars have not done demonstrably better than those chief executives drawn from other vocational backgrounds—connected, say, to law, commerce, or the military. An able political theorist, James Madison proved an ineffective commander in chief during the 1812 fiasco. Professor Woodrow Wilson, once released from Princ…
Why Girls Leave Home
Purporting to depict an entire four-act stage play, Why Girls Leave Home, a six-minute Edison film made in America for the British market, dates either from 1909 or 1912. This film parodies the clichés of the Melville brothers' "bad-girl" melodrama, thus inviting study of Melvillian melodrama as a pervasive, if lurid, English theatrical genre, and similarly inviting investigation of the tactics of theatrical parody. The action of Why Girls Leave …
La guerra con México y los disidentes estadunidenses, 1846-1848
Este artículo examina las ideas y la influencia de ciudadanos prominentes de Estados Unidos que objetaron la guerra de del presidente James Polk en contra de México, 1846-1848. Las razones para la objeción variaban. Algunos de los disidentes creían que la guerra constituía una agresión injusta. A otros preocupaba sobre todo la adquisición de tierras nuevas que agravaría la lid en curso entre el sur plantacionista y el norte antiesclavista. Todaví…
History of Russian-U.S. Relations, 1867-1921
Books reviewed in this article: Norman E. Saul, Concord and Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867–1914 Norman E. Saul, War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914–1921 These two volumes continue the exhaustive study by Norman E. Saul begun in his award-winning Distant Friends: The United States and Russia,1763–1867.1 Like that first book in the trilogy, the books reviewed here entail a broad sweep of history as fascinating as it…
Vietnam
JFK's ambassadors and the cold war
The importance of sound representation abroad was plain to President J.F. Kennedy. This survey of Kennedy's diplomats is selective, confined to the three most telling cases in the Cold War drama: Moscow, New Delhi, London. The countries corresponding with these capitals shaped America's world, as chief rival, preeminent neutral and pluckiest ally. Ambassadors in distinctive posts do not constitute the whole of JFK's foreign policy, but this accou…
Wars and Peace
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 …
Wars and Peace
Battling Western Imperialism
Journal Article Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States. By Michael M. Sheng. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. x, 255 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-691-01635-6.) Get access David Mayers David Mayers Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1658, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568389 Publis…
The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy
George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together with a number of lesser-known officials, these diplomats played a vital role in shaping U.S. strategy and popular attitudes toward the Soviet Union throughout its 75-year history. In The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy, David Mayers presents t…
Reevaluating Eisenhower
Pierrot
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy
Cracking the Monolith
Journal Article Cracking the Monolith: U.S. Policy against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1955. By David Allan Mayers. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xv + 176 pp. $22.50.) Get access Robert A. Divine Robert A. Divine University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 223–224, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908612 Pu…
The Interdependence of Individual Portfolio Decisions and the Demand for Insurance
We analyze the individual's demand for insurance as a special case of general portfolio hedging activity. The demand for insurance contracts is determined simultaneously with the demands for other assets in the portfolio. We demonstrate that when the payoffs of the policy are correlated with the payoffs to the individual's other assets, the demand for insurance contracts is generally not a separable portfolio decision. We argue that this separabi…
Western Popular Theatre
Destruction Repaired and Destruction Anticipated
This analysis examines the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the Acheson-Lilienthal project and brings into conversation their drafting histories, politics, and diplomacy. Placing them in the same analytical framework, something not hitherto done in the literature, this essay traces the saga of UNRRA and Acheson-Lilienthal and their tandem cold-war fates. As peoples and governments pick their way through the huma…
Why Girls Leave Home
Purporting to depict an entire four-act stage play, Why Girls Leave Home, a six-minute Edison film made in America for the British market, dates either from 1909 or 1912. This film parodies the clichés of the Melville brothers' "bad-girl" melodrama, thus inviting study of Melvillian melodrama as a pervasive, if lurid, English theatrical genre, and similarly inviting investigation of the tactics of theatrical parody. The action of Why Girls Leave …
JFK's ambassadors and the cold war
The importance of sound representation abroad was plain to President J.F. Kennedy. This survey of Kennedy's diplomats is selective, confined to the three most telling cases in the Cold War drama: Moscow, New Delhi, London. The countries corresponding with these capitals shaped America's world, as chief rival, preeminent neutral and pluckiest ally. Ambassadors in distinctive posts do not constitute the whole of JFK's foreign policy, but this accou…
After Stalin
George Kennan and the Soviet Union, 1933–1938
formal diplomatic relations. George Kennan, not yet thirty, was invited to join the first official delegation to represent US interests in Moscow. This tour in the Soviet Union, which coincided with the great purges and was dominated by them, was formative for Kennan and crucial to the development of his early views about the Soviet Union, the nature of Russian-US relations, and US diplomacy. When later the Cold War began to erupt, these views of…
Pierrot
Western Popular Theatre
Antony and Cleopatra on the English Stage
State and Class
Eisenhower's Containment Policy and the Major Communist Powers, 1953–1956
(1983). Eisenhower's Containment Policy and the Major Communist Powers, 1953–1956. The International History Review: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 59-83
George Kennan and the Soviet Union, 1933–1938
formal diplomatic relations. George Kennan, not yet thirty, was invited to join the first official delegation to represent US interests in Moscow. This tour in the Soviet Union, which coincided with the great purges and was dominated by them, was formative for Kennan and crucial to the development of his early views about the Soviet Union, the nature of Russian-US relations, and US diplomacy. When later the Cold War began to erupt, these views of…
The Interdependence of Individual Portfolio Decisions and the Demand for Insurance
We analyze the individual's demand for insurance as a special case of general portfolio hedging activity. The demand for insurance contracts is determined simultaneously with the demands for other assets in the portfolio. We demonstrate that when the payoffs of the policy are correlated with the payoffs to the individual's other assets, the demand for insurance contracts is generally not a separable portfolio decision. We argue that this separabi…
Young Kennan's Criticisms and Recommendations
After serving for more than a decade abroad as a US diplomat, George Kennan was recalled home for one year in 1937. During this period he considered ways of dealing with problems then afflicting American society. A short time later he made recommendations on how to improve the Foreign Service. His proposals in both cases were startling and seem to confirm the wisdom of John Quincy Adams: US diplomats should take leave home every few years in orde…
Nazi Germany and the Future of Europe
George kennan despaired in the late 1930s over what he viewed as the deplorable condition of US politics and diplomacy. By the summer of 1938, while heading the Russian desk at the state department, he was tempted to resign from the foreign service and to pursue in Wisconsin, like previous generations of Kennans, a life in farming or some other 'small job'.1 However, he chose not to seek retirement, but to accept instead the government's next ass…
Containment and the Primacy of Diplomacy
Soviet War Aims and the Grant Alliance
Throughout the second world war George Kennan was a disaffected diplomat who stood temperamentally outside of the passions of war and was on the verge of resigning from the Foreign Service. His various postings between 1939 and 1944 (Prague, Berlin, Lisbon, London) caused him to doubt America's ability to wage war in the service of realistic diplomatic goals. His tenure in Moscow, 1944-1946, convinced him further that the United States was unable…
Was Chinese-American Hostility Inevitable
Cracking the Monolith
Journal Article Cracking the Monolith: U.S. Policy against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1955. By David Allan Mayers. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xv + 176 pp. $22.50.) Get access Robert A. Divine Robert A. Divine University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 223–224, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908612 Pu…
Reevaluating Eisenhower
Reevaluating Eisenhower
Journal Article Reevaluating Eisenhower: American Foreign Policy in the 1950s. Ed. by Richard A. Melanson and David Mayers. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. viii + 277 pp. $26.95.) Get access R. Alton Lee R. Alton Lee University of South Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Page 1390, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894504 Published: 01 Ma…
The China Hands' Legacy
Journal Article The China Hands' Legacy: Ethics and Diplomacy. Ed. by Paul Gordon Lauren. (Boulder: Westview, 1987. xi + 196 pp. $24.00.) Get access David Mayers David Mayers 1University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 301–302, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889770 Published: 01 June 1988
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of U.S. Foreign Policy
George Kennan And The Dilemmas Of US Foreign Policy
One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s, George Frost Kennan eventually became the American government ’s chief expert on Soviet affairs during the height of the Cold War. Drawing upon a wealth of original research, David Mayers ‘ fascinating life of George Kennan examines his high-level participation in foreign policy-making and interprets hi…
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy
Journal Article George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy. By David Mayers. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xiv + 402 pp. $32.50.) Get access Ralph B. Levering Ralph B. Levering Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Page 1305, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936684 Published: 01 March 1990
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy
After Stalin
The Ambassadors and America’s Soviet Policy
George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together with a number of lesser-known officials, these diplomats played a vital role in shaping U.S. strategy and popular attitudes toward the Soviet Union throughout its 75-year history. In The Ambassadors and America’s Soviet Policy, David Mayers presents t…
The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy
George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together with a number of lesser-known officials, these diplomats played a vital role in shaping U.S. strategy and popular attitudes toward the Soviet Union throughout its 75-year history. In The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy, David Mayers presents t…
The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy
Journal Article The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy. By David Mayers. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xiv, 335 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-506802-5.) Get access Ralph B. Levering Ralph B. Levering Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1610–1611, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945394 Published: 01 M…
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