Thomas J. McCormick
American historian

Thomas J. McCormick

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American historian
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Male
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United States of America
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Social science
Birth:
6 March 1933
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Thomas J. McCormick is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the same place he got a Ph. D. where he succeeded William Appleman Williams and continued the groundbreaking work of the so-called Wisconsin School, credited with launching the revisionist New Left movement in diplomatic history.
He has used Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems approach to describe the dynamics of corporatism in US diplomatic history.

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  • China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901. Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1967.
  • Creation Of The American Empire: Volume 1: U.S. Diplomatic History to 1901. With Lloyd C. Gardner and Walter F. LeFeber. New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1973.
  • America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
  • The Cold War in Europe: Era of a Divided Continent. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1991.
  • Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968. With Walter F. LeFeber (eds.) Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.