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MICHAEL H. HUNT, Everett H. Emerson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, writes and teaches in the general field of international history. His special teaching and research interests are in U.S. foreign relations, the Cold War in Asia, the Vietnam War, and the post-1945 world.
Born into a military family, he spent a good part of his youth abroad. After taking his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, he did his graduate work in the history department at Yale. He took his Ph.D. in 1971. He taught at Yale and Colgate before moving to North Carolina in 1980.
His early work, focusing on nineteenth and twentieth century Chinese-American relations, includes two prize-winning books, Frontier Defense and the Open Door (Yale University Press, 1973) and The Making of a Special Relationship (Columbia University Press, 1983; Chinese translation) as well as a prize-winning article, "Americans in the China Market," Business History Review 48 (Autumn 1977).
His long-term concern with the history of U.S. foreign relations is represented by a string of broadly cast works, notably Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 1987; Chinese translation); "The Long Crisis in U.S. Diplomatic History," Diplomatic History 16 (Winter 1992); and Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader (Yale University Press, 1996).
He has also cultivated an interest in twentieth-century East Asian international relations, resulting most recently in The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press, 1996; Chinese translation forthcoming), based on new sources, and Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Hill and Wang, 1996), a slim synthesis.
His recent interest in global history is reflected in The World Transformed: 1945 to the Present (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003), an accompanying reader, and a work in progress on U.S. foreign relations over the last century and a half set in the context of global trends.
He has served as a consultant to university and commercial presses, foundations, research centers, film projects, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the State Department, and the editors of professional journals. He is the co-editor of the Columbia University Press series on the United States and Pacific Asia. He was honored by election as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has received major research and conference grants from the Committee for International Relations Study with the People's Republic of China, Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/history/faculty/hunt.html
Research Interests
Professor Hunt writes and teaches in the general field of international history. His early work, focusing on nineteenth and twentieth century Chinese-American relations, includes two prize-winning books. The Making of a Special Relationship (Columbia, 1983) is the best known. His long-term concern with U.S. foreign relations is reflected in several broad interpretive, historiographical, and methodological works, notably Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (Yale, 1987); "The Long Crisis in U.S. Diplomatic History," Diplomatic History 16 (Winter 1992); and Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader (Yale, 1996). He has also cultivated an interest in modern East Asia, resulting in The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (Columbia, 1996), based on new sources, and Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Hill and Wang, 1996), a slim synthesis. His recent interest in contemporary global history has led to The World Transformed: 1945 to the Present (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003) and a companion reader as well as a history of U.S. foreign relations set in a global framework (now underway). He has also been collaborating with Steven I. Levine on an account of America's wars in Asia.
Publications
Books:
Lyndon Johnson’s War: America’s Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (New York: Hill
and Wang, 1996); paper 1997;
Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1996); cloth and paper;
The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996);
excerpted in Cold War International History Project Bulletin, nos. 6-7 (Winter 1995/1996);
paper 1998; Chinese-language edition (Shanghai: Sanlian publishing house, forthcoming);
excerpt in Russian forthcoming;
2
Toward a History of Chinese Communist Foreign Relations, 1920s-1960s: Personalities and
Interpretive Approaches (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Asia Program, [1995]) (coedited
with Niu Jun);
Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987); paperback edition,
1988; excerpts in readers; Chinese-language edition (Beijing: Shijie zhishi publishing house,
forthcoming); Spanish-language translation in progress;
The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914 (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1983); paperback edition, 1985; excerpts included in readers and
translated into Chinese; full Chinese translation with a new introduction under the title Yizhong
teshu guanxi de xingcheng--1914 nianqian de Meiguo yu Zhongguo, trans. Xiang Liling,
Lin Yongjun, and Zhang Zimou (Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 1993); second printing of
Chinese translation with a new title: ZhongMei teshu guanxi de xingcheng--1914 nianqian
de Meiguo yu Zhongguo (Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 1997);
Frontier Defense and the Open Door: Manchuria in Chinese-American Relations, 1895-1911
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973); available in reprint edition.