Richard Dean Burns, Guide to American Foreign Relations Since 1700 (Santa Barbara, Calif., 1983), supersedes all other bibliography on pre-1981 materials. See also Gerald K. Haines and J. Samuel Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review (Westport, Conn., 1981); Robert L. Beisner, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900, 2d ed. (Arlington Heights, III., 1986), with a superb bibliography; and the footnotes of this book.

Important overviews of the 1865—1900 years include Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877—1919 (New York, 1987); Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire (New York, 1987), surprisingly weak on the United States; Akira Iriye, From Nationalism to Internationalism: U.S. Foreign Policy to 1914 (London, 1977), an important synthesis; Charles S. Campbell, The Transformation of American Foreign Relations, 1865-1900 (New York, 1976), the most detailed account, with a detailed bibliography as well; Beisner, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, noted already; Dexter Perkins, The Monroe Doctrine, 1867-1907 (Baltimore, 1937), still a classic; Tennant S. McWilliams, The New South Faces the World (Baton Rouge, 1988), especially on the 1880s-1890s; Hans Ulrich Wehler, Der Aufstiegdes amerikanischen Imperialisms …