Lafeber, Walter Frederick

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LAFEBER, Walter Frederick

LAFEBER, Walter Frederick. American, b. 1933. Genres: History, International relations/Current affairs. Career: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Andrew and James Tisch University Professor, 2002-, Steven Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow, 1994- (Assistant Professor, 1959-63; Associate Professor, 1963-67; Professor, 1967-68; Noll Professor of History, 1968-2002). Member, Editorial Board, Political Science Quarterly. Member, Advisory Committee, Foreign Relations of the United States series, U.S. Dept. of State, 1971-75; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, 1990. Publications: The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898, 1963, 2nd ed., 1998; America, Russia and the Cold War, 1967, 9th ed., 2002; (co-author) Creation of the American Empire, 1973; (co-author) The American Century, 1974, 4th ed., 1997; The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective, 1978; The Third Cold War, 1981; Inevitable Revolutions: The U.S. in Central America, 1983; (co- author) America in Vietnam; The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad from 1750 to Our Own Time, 1989, 2nd ed., 1994; The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913, Vol. II: The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, 1993; The Clash: U.S. Japan Relations throughout History, 1997; Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, 1999, 2nd ed., 2000. EDITOR: John Q. Adams and American Continental Empire, 1965; America and Twenty Years Revolution, 1947-1967, 1969; Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947, 1971; (co) Behind the Throne (essays in U.S. diplomatic history in honor of F.H. Harrington), 1993. Address: Dept of History, McGraw Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4601, U.S.A.

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