Elizabeth Cobbs
American historian and author
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Elizabeth Cobbs's Degrees
- PhD American History Stanford University
- Masters American History Stanford University
- Bachelors American Studies Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Cobbs is an American historian, commentator and author of nine books including three novels, a history textbook and five non-fiction works. She retired from Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University , following upon a four-decade career in California where she began working for the Center for Women’s Studies and Services as a teenager. She writes on the subjects of feminism and human rights, and the history of U.S. foreign relations. She is known for advancing the controversial theory that the United States is not an empire, challenging a common scholarly assumption. She asserts instead that the federal government has played the role of “umpire” at home and abroad since 1776.
Elizabeth Cobbs's Published Works
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- U. S. Business in Latin America@@@The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil.@@@Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944. (1994) (29)
- The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975 by Michael Schudson (review) (2016) (25)
- The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil (1992) (18)
- The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers (2017) (8)
- All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (1998) (6)
- Entrepreneurship as Diplomacy: Nelson Rockefeller and the Development of the Brazilian Capital Market (1989) (3)
- Why They Think Like Gringoes: The Discourse of U.S.–Latin American Relations (1997) (2)
- Fighting on Two Fronts: World War One, Women’s Suffrage, and John Pershing’s “Hello Girls” (2017) (1)
- FDR's Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos. By Frederick B. Pike (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Pp. 394. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $34.95.) (1996) (1)
- The effectiveness of parliamentary politics (2018) (0)
- Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America . Edited by Marcos Cueto · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xx + 171 pp. Tables, illustrations, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-253-31583-2. (1994) (0)
- 12. Soldiering Forward in the Twentieth Century (2017) (0)
- A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977–1990. By Robert Kagan New York and US-Sandinista Diplomatie Relations: Voice of Intolerance. By David Ryan New York (1997) (0)
- Fearless Women (2023) (0)
- 1. America’s Last Citizens (2017) (0)
- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: WOMEN IN WORLD WAR ONE (2017) (0)
- Blind Spot: Women and the History of War (2020) (0)
- 5. Pack Your Kit (2017) (0)
- 2. Neutrality Defeated, and the Telephone in War and Peace (2017) (0)
- 7. Americans Find Their Way, Over There (2017) (0)
- The Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923–1933. By Paul W. Drake · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1989. xiv + 335 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. $50.00 (1989) (0)
- 10. Together in the Crisis of Meuse- Argonne (2017) (0)
- 4. We’re Going Over (2017) (0)
- 9. Wilson Fights for Democracy at Home (2017) (0)
- 6. Wilson Adopts Suffrage, and the Signal Corps Embarks (2017) (0)
- Looking Inward—Looking Outward: Aspects of American Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty. Ed. by Göran Rystad. (Lund: Lund University Press, 1990. Ill pp. Paper, ISBN 91-7966-132-7.) (1994) (0)
- 8. Better Late Than Never on the Marne (2017) (0)
- 3. Looking for Soldiers and Finding Women (2017) (0)
- 11. Peace without Their Victory Medals (2017) (0)
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