Dennis Merrill
Present and Projected Research:
"Negotiating Cold War Paradise: U.S. Tourism Economic Planning and Cultural Modernity in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico," Diplomatic History, Spring 2001.
Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, 2vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflen, 2000.
Documentary History of the Truman Administration, 31 vols. Bethesda, Md. University Publications of America, 1996 - 2001.
"The Ironies of History: The United States and India's Decolonization," in David Ryan, ed. The United States and Decolonization (London: Macmillan, 1999)
"Foreign Relations: The Economic Dimension," in Melvyn Dubofsky et. al., eds. The Oxford Companion to United States History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Contact information: phone number 816.235.2542
email: merrilld@umkc.edu
I am a historian of international relations, who specializes on American interaction with the world. My research focuses on U.S.- Third World relations and I am currently working on a history of U.S. Tourism in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the twentieth century. I also enjoy dabbling in twentieth century U.S. political history and have written on the presidential administration of Harry S. Truman (1945-1953).
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