Thomas J. McCormick
Thomas J. McCormick(March 6, 1933 – July 25, 2020)[1]was an American academic who was emeritus professor of history at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison,the same place he got a Ph. D.[2]where he succeededWilliam Appleman Williamsand continued the groundbreaking work of the so-calledWisconsin School of diplomatic history.Indeed he is considered one of the core members of the Wisconsin School, along with Williams,Walter LaFeber,andLloyd Gardner.[3][4]He has usedImmanuel Wallerstein'sworld-systems approachto describe the dynamics of hegemony in US diplomatic history[5]and also studied UScorporatism.[6]
McCormick taught at theOhio University,University of Pittsburgh,andUniversity of Wisconsin–Madisonwhere he won the Wisconsin Student Association Award for Teaching Excellence (1992-1993). He was a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow (1981), Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer atUniversity College Dublin(1993-1994), and Vilas Associate (1996-1998). McCormick authored six books (see Works) and many influential articles.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]He often gave US guest lectures[17][18][19][20]as well as several keynote addresses at worldwide conferences.[21][22][23][24]
On December 4, 2023, theUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonSenate Faculty passed a memorial resolution[25]honoring the career and life of Professor Thomas J. McCormick.
Works
[edit]- China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901.Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1967.
- Creation of the American Empire: U.S. Diplomatic History.With Lloyd C. Gardner and Walter F. LaFeber. New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1973.
- America in Vietnam.With William A. Williams and Walter F. LaFeber. New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1988.
- America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War.Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, revised second edition 1995.
- The Vietnam War: Four American Perspectives.With William Westmorland, George McGovern, and Edward Luttwack. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1990.
- Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968.With Walter F. LaFeber (eds.) Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^"McCormick, Thomas Joseph, Jr".Madison.com.Retrieved21 January2021.
- ^"History Department Emeriti/Emeritae".Archived fromthe originalon 8 December 2010.Retrieved24 May2011.
- ^Crapol, Edward (February 1987). "Some Reflections on the Historiography of the Cold War".The History Teacher.20(2): 251–262.doi:10.2307/493031.JSTOR493031.
- ^Morgan, James G. (2014).Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of American Imperialism.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 172.
- ^Gale, Thomas."Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450".Modern World-System Analysis.Retrieved30 August2019.
- ^Williams, William A. (1961).The Contours of American History.W. W. Norton Company.ISBN9780393305616.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1963). "Insular Imperialism and the Open Door: The China Market and the Spanish-American War".Pacific Historical Review.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1971). "The State of American Diplomatic History".The State of American History.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1972). "Exporting the Social Question".New Perspectives in American History.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1982). "Drift or Mastery? The Corporatist Synthesis in American Diplomatic History".The Promise of American History.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1978). "Every System Needs A Center Sometime--An Essay on Hegemony and Modern American Foreign Policy".Redefining the Past.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1991). "Systemic Explanations".Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1992). "The 1890s as Watershed Decade".Safeguarding the Republic, 1890-1990.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1993). "Walking the Tightrope: Adolf A. Berle, Jr. and America's Journey from Social to Global Capitalism, 1933-1945".Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1994). "Creating the New Co-Prosperity Sphere: The United States, Japan and Asia, 1945-1954".Bulletin of Asian Studies.IV.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (2005). "American Hegemony and European Autonomy, 1989-2003: One Framework for Understanding the War in Iraq".The New American Empire.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1988). "American Hegemony and the Roots of the Vietnam War".Louis B. Sears Lectures.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1962). "The Spanish-American War and American China Policy".Association of Asian Studies.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1969). "The State of American Diplomatic History".Organization of American Historians.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1981). "Social History, Corporatism, and American Diplomatic History".Woodrow Wilson Center.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1983). "The Corporatist Synthesis in American Diplomatic History".Japanese Association of American Studies.Kyoto, Japan.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1993). "Glancing Backward, Looking Forward: A Retrospective on the World-System and its Prospects for the Next Quarter-Century".Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership and the American Center.Osaka, Japan.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (1996). "The Promise and Perils of American Hegemony".French Association of American Studies.Lyon, France.
- ^McCormick, Thomas (2000). "Modern Hegemony and the Rhythms of History".Japanese Association of Western History.Osaka, Japan.
- ^"Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison On the Death of Professor Emeritus Thomas J. McCormick"(PDF).University of Wisconsin-Madison.UW-Madison Faculty.
Further reading
[edit]- James G. Morgan,Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of American Imperialism.Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.
- In Memoriam: Thomas J. McCormickby Lloyd Gardner and Walter LaFeber