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From the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. A. Thompson
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St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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1 For substantial reviews of this historiography, see Charles E. Neu, ‘The changing interpretive structure of American foreign policy’, and, more especially, Trask, David F., ‘Writings on American foreign relations: 1957 to the present’ in Braeman, John, Bremner, Robert H. and Brody, David (eds.). Twentieth-century American foreign policy (Ohio State University Press, 1971), pp. 157. 58118Google Scholar.

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