Rise and Fall of American Power, Syllabus Fall 2018
History 434 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1898 Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2018 / MWF 11:00-11:50AM For the most of the twentieth century, the United States was the […]
Category Archives: US and the World
Review of two books on Cuba’s Cold War for The Nation
In The Nation, I have a review of Jonathan Brown’s Cuba’s Revolutionary World and Dirk Kruijt’s Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America. In February 1962, Fidel Castro spoke the words of the Second Declaration […]
Review of Richard Cándida Smith, “Improvised Continent”
An edited version of this will be in the Journal of Latin American Studies later, but I’m allowed to post pre-print text here. Richard Cándida Smith, Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and […]
Review of Arne Westad’s “The Cold War: A World History”
In The New Republic, I have a review of Odd Arne Westad’s “The Cold War: A World History.” (Wonderful illustration by Guy Billout.) This is an important book, and it’s a […]
Syllabus Fall 2017: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1898
History 434 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1898 Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2017 / MWF 11:00-11:50AM / Humanities 1111 For the most of the twentieth century, the United […]
“Social Science, Cultural Imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in the 1960s,” in The Global 1960s
I have a chapter in this edited volume, The Global 1960s, on how the Ford Foundation gets trapped by a climate of suspicion it helps create as it tries to move […]
Debating Political Economy: An Approach to Teaching the U.S. and the World
In the Journal of American History vol. 103, no. 4 (March 2017), I have an essay in the textbooks and teaching section about using weekly debates, and a political economy frame, […]
