Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction, Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence
Part I: Thinking Beyond East and West
1. Lyndon Johnson and the Challenges of Economic Globalization,
Daniel Sargent
2. Toward a New Deal for the World? Lyndon Johnson's Aspirations to
Renew the Twentieth Century's Pax Americana, Patrick O. Cohrs
3. Moving Beyond the Cold War: The Johnson Administration,
Bridge-Building, and Détente, Thomas A. Schwartz
Part II: Internationalizing the Great Society
4. One Global War on Poverty: The Johnson Administration Fights
Poverty at Home and Abroad, 1964-1968, Sheyda Jahanbani
5. LBJ's Third War: The War on Hunger, Nick Cullather
6. LBJ and World Population: Planning the Greater Society One
Family at a Time, Matthew Connelly
7. Globalizing the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and the Pursuit of
Smallpox Eradication, Erez Manela
Part III: Adapting to a World of Scarcity
8. Thinking Globally: U.S. Foreign Aid, Paul Ehrlich, and the
Emergence of Environmentalism in the 1960s, Tom Robertson
9. "More a Gun at Our Heads than Theirs": The 1967 Arab Oil
Embargo, Third World Raw Materials Sovereignty, and American
Diplomacy, Christopher R.W. Dietrich
Part IV: Shifting Moralities
10. The Rise of Human Rights during the Johnson Years, Sarah B.
Snyder
11. Globalized Faith, Radicalized Religion, and the Domestic
Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy, Andrew Preston
Francis J. Gavin is the Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security
Policy Studies in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is the author of Gold, Dollars, and
Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971
and Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic
Age.
Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Assuming the Burden:
Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The
Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
"Even more happened in the 1960s than we thought....The editors
Francis J. Gavin
and Mark Atwood Lawrence lay out the underlying factors that
accelerated what would become known as globalization....This book
demonstrates that the 1960s remain a rich field for
research."--Journal of American History
"Distinguished historians Frank Gavin and Mark Lawrence have
assembled an all-star cast of young scholars of U.S. foreign
relations to shed new light on the 1960s, a decade we thought we
already knew perhaps too well. These excellent essays focus on
contemporary global issues of the greatest
importance--environmental change, energy, poverty and disease,
human rights, religion, globalization--and trace them back to their
emergence as policy concerns during the
Lyndon Johnson administration. The authors challenge and expand our
understanding of national security in a global age. This is some of
the best of the new U.S. international history."--Thomas
Borstelmann, author of The Cold War and the Color Line
"This exemplary collection sets the agenda for a new phase in the
scholarship on the international history of the 1960s."--Fredrik
Logevall, Cornell University
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