Ronald E. Powaski
Ronald E. Powaski | |
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Born | June 15, 1943 |
Died | November 2019 | (aged 76)
Academic background | |
Education | John Carroll University Case Western Reserve University |
Thesis | Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933(1972) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | American historian, 20th-century foreign policy |
Institutions |
Ronald E. Powaski(June 15, 1943 – November 2019)[1]was an Americanhistorianand teacher. He taughtAmerican historyin high schools and colleges in Ohio and wrote on the20th centuryforeign policiesof theUnited StatesandEurope.
Biography
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Ronald Powaski graduated fromCathedral Latin High Schoolin 1960. He earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in history fromJohn Carroll Universityin 1964 and 1966 and his PhD fromCase Western Reserve Universityin Cleveland in 1972 with a dissertation entitled "Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933".[2]
Career
[edit]Powaski taught history atEuclid Senior High SchoolinEuclid, Ohio.[3][4] He also taught atCleveland State University,John Carroll University,[4]andAshland University.
In 1989 he publishedMarch to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present.[5]In the next two decades, he published 11 books covering the nuclear arms race, the creation of NATO, World War II, presidential statecraft, and presidential foreign policies.[5][6]
Books
[edit]- Powaski, Ronald Edward (1972).Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933(PhD).Case Western Reserve University.
- Powaski, Ronald E. (1987).March to Armageddon: the United States and the nuclear arms race, 1939 to the present.Oxford University PressUS.ISBN978-0-19-504411-9.
- Powaski, Ronald E.;Merton, Thomas(1988).Thomas Merton on Nuclear Weapons.Loyola University Press.ISBN0-8294-0586-0.
- Powaski, Ronald E. (1991).Toward an entangling alliance: American isolationism, internationalism, and Europe, 1901–1950.Greenwood Publishing Group.ISBN978-0-313-27274-5.
- Powaski, Ronald E. (1998).The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-507850-3.
- Powaski, Ronald E. (2003).Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-516098-7.
- Powaski, Ronald E. (2008).Lightning War: Blitzkrieg in the West, 1940.Book Sales, Inc.ISBN978-0-7858-2097-0.
- Powaski, Ronald E. (2017).American presidential statecraft: During the Cold War and after.Palgrave MacMillan.doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50454-4.ISBN978-3-319-50453-7.
Commentaries
[edit]- Powaski, Ronald E. (April 8, 2002)."End the cold war for good".The Christian Science Monitor.
- Powaski, Ronald E. "Bush's Nuclear Folly."America189, no. 3 (August 4, 2003): 7. Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed March 30, 2010).
References
[edit]- ^"Dr. Ronald E. Powaski Ph.D. [Obituary]".The Cleveland Plain Dealer.17 November 2019.
- ^Powaski, Ronald Edward (1972).Great Britain and the Manchurian crisis, 1931-1933(PhD).Case Western Reserve University.
- ^ Levy (1999,p. 502): Levy, Peter B., ed. (1999).100 Key Documents in American Democracy (Paperback).Praeger.ISBN0275965252.
- ^abPowaski, Ronald E.(2003).Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999.Oxford University Press. p. 303.ISBN978-0-19-516098-7.
- ^abOstrower, Gary B. (October 1988). "Book Review: March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present".Armed Forces & Society.15(1): 154–156.doi:10.1177/0095327X8801500122.S2CID143108269.
- ^Eden, Douglas (September 1995)."The Entangling Alliance: The United States and European Security, 1950–1993.By Ronald E. Powaski ".The Journal of American History(review).82(2). Oxford University Press: 829.doi:10.2307/2082382.JSTOR2082382.
External links
[edit]- Contemporary historians
- Historians of the United States
- Cold War historians
- American historians of World War II
- American military historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- Cleveland State University faculty
- Case Western Reserve University alumni
- People from Euclid, Ohio
- 1943 births
- 2019 deaths
- Historians from Ohio