Paul A. Varg
American historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul A. Varg was an American historian. He was a leading scholar in the field of U.S. foreign relations. The historical subject of China was one of particular interest to Varg. Biography Varg was from Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Clark University for his bachelor's and master's degrees. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1947 with a dissertation on William Woodville Rockhill, under the influence of Harley F. MacNair. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Varg began teaching at Ohio State University, rising to the rank of associate professor, and moved in 1958 to Michigan State University, where he remained for the rest of his career. He taught at the University of Stockholm in 1955–1956 as a visiting Fulbright scholar. From 1962 to 1969, he was the first Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State. Varg served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1979. He retired in July 1981. He is remembered by an annual faculty award at Michigan State.
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- Popular Education and Democratic Thought in America (1956) (85)
- Missionaries, Chinese, and diplomats: The American Protestant missionary movement in China, 1890-1952 (1959) (37)
- The Myth of the China Market, 1890-1914 (1968) (16)
- Southeast Asia in United States policy (1964) (15)
- The Rise of Chinese Military Power, 1895-1912 Ralph L. Powell (1956) (13)
- The Advent of Nationalism, 1758-1776 (1964) (12)
- Motives in Protestant Missions, 1890–1917 (1954) (11)
- United States Foreign Relations, 1820-1860 (1979) (10)
- Open Door Diplomat: The Life of W.W. Rockhill (1953) (9)
- The Economic Side of the Good Neighbor Policy: The Reciprocal Trade Program and South America (1976) (6)
- New England and Foreign Relations: 1789-1850 (1982) (6)
- The Foreign Policy of Japan and the Boxer Revolt (1946) (3)
- America, from Client State to World Power: Six Major Transitions in United States Foreign Relations (1990) (3)
- Imperialism and the American Orientation toward World Affairs (1966) (3)
- The Missionary Response to the Nationalist Revolution (1974) (3)
- The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late-Industrializing World Since 1815 Tony Smith (1983) (2)
- Edward Everett: The Intellectual in the Turmoil of Politics (1992) (2)
- William Woodville Rockhill and the Open Door Notes (1952) (2)
- The Political Ideas of the American Railway Union (1948) (1)
- William Woodville Rockhill's Influence on the Boxer Negotiations (1949) (1)
- Report of the Meeting of the Advisory Committee on “Foreign Relations of the United States” Held at the Department of State, November 5, 1971 (1972) (1)
- Trade and Hemisphere: The Good Neighbor Policy and Reciprocal Trade Dick Steward (1976) (1)
- The making of a myth (1968) (1)
- Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots: 1891-1900 Edmund S. Wehrle (1966) (1)
- Intellectual Climate and Student Unrest: Has the University Become a House Divided? (1966) (1)
- Sino-American Relations Past and Present (1980) (1)
- Contributors to this Issue (1995) (0)
- “Let the Eagle Soar?” The Foreign Policy of Andrew Jackson. By John M. Belohlavek. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. x + 328 pp. $28.95.) (1986) (0)
- Book Review: United States: America Encounters Japan, Peace-Making and the Settlement with Japan (1964) (0)
- United States Expansionism and British North America, 1775-1871 Reginald C. Stuart (1989) (0)
- The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933–1938: From the Manchurian Incident through the Initial Stage of the Undeclared Sino-Japanese War. By Dorothy Borg. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. x + 674 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) (1965) (0)
- Vision for a Valley Olof Olsson and the Early History of Lindsborg. (1974) (0)
- Tibet (1951) (0)
- Ideals and Self-Interest in America's Foreign Relations: the Great Transformation of the Twentieth Century. By Robert Endicott Osgood. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1953. Pp. xii, 491. $6.50.) (1954) (0)
- UNITED STATES LOUIS GALAMBOS. The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change. Pp. viii, 324. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. $15.00 (1976) (0)
- Book Review: Vision for a Valley Olof Olsson and the Early History of Lindsborg (1974) (0)
- Issues and Conflicts: Studies in Twentieth Century American Diplomacy George L. Anderson (1959) (0)
- The Lost Alternative: America and China, 1936-46@@@The Closing of the Door: Sino-American Relations, 1936-1946. (1974) (0)
- America Encounters Japan. From Perry to MacArthur@@@Peace-Making and the Settlement with Japan (1964) (0)
- American Diplomacy and the Narcotics Traffic, 1900-1939: A Study in International Humanitarian Reform Arnold H. Taylor (1970) (0)
- Edward V. Gulick. Peter Parker and the Opening of China. (Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations, 3.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1973. Pp. xi, 282. $12.00 (1975) (0)
- Preface (1962) (0)
- ALFRED JACKSON HANNA and KATHRYN ABBEY HANNA. Napoleon III and Mexico : American Triumph over Monarchy. Pp. xi, 350. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. $11.25 (1972) (0)
- Dragon and Eagle: United States-China Relations: Past and Future Michel Oksenberg Robert B. Oxnam (1980) (0)
- Sociology and Economics W. Andrew Achenbaum. Old Age in the New Land. Pp. xii, 237. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. $13.95 (1980) (0)
- Special Business Interests and the Open Door Policy Charles S. Campbell, Jr. (1951) (0)
- The Proposed Foundation for the Humanities: Recapturing the Spirit of Humanism (1965) (0)
- Scratches on Our Minds: American Images of China and India Harold R. Isaacs (1958) (0)
- Scandinavian students on an American campus (1961) (0)
- The American Approach to Foreign Policy. By Dexter Perkins. [The Gottesman Lectures, Uppsala University, II.] (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1952. Pp. 195. $3.25.) (1952) (0)
- China Scapegoat: The Diplomatic Ordeal of John Carter Vincent. By Gary May. (Washington: New Republic, 1979. 370 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.95.) (1981) (0)
- Jonathan R. Dull. A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1985. Pp. xii, 229. $15.95 (1986) (0)
- The Closing of the Door: Sino-American Relations, 1936-1946@@@Ambassador from the Prairie: Or Allison Wonderland (1975) (0)
- Builders of the Chinese Church: Pioneer Protestant Missionaries and Chinese Church Leaders (1958) (0)
- Book Review: Far East: China Assignment (1965) (0)
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