Robert J. McMahon is a historian specializing in U.S. foreign relations and a professor at Ohio State University. His academic career includes previous teaching positions at the University of Florida, as well as visiting appointments at the University of Virginia and University College Dublin. McMahon's scholarly work focuses on the complexities of American diplomacy and international relations, contributing to a deeper understanding of U.S. foreign policy throughout the 20th century.
As an established authority in his field, McMahon has authored and edited numerous publications that examine critical moments in global history. His research often explores the intersections of Cold War politics, decolonization, and America's evolving role on the world stage. With a career spanning decades, McMahon has shaped historical discourse through his rigorous analysis and commitment to contextualizing U.S. foreign relations within broader geopolitical frameworks.
Non-Fiction Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
The Origins of the Cold War
1974
2
Colonialism and Cold War
1981
3
Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War
1990
4
The Cold War on the Periphery
1994
5
The Limits of Empire
1999
6
Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order
2008
7
The Cold War In The Third World
2013
Very Short Introductions Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Science and Religion (By: Thomas Dixon, Adam Shapiro)
1903
2
Marx (By: Peter Singer)
1980
3
Aristotle ( By: Jonathan Barnes)
1982
4
Darwin (By: Jonathan Howard)
1982
5
Hegel (By: Peter Singer, Luís Filipe Teixeira)
1983
6
Clausewitz (By: Michael Eliot Howard)
1983
7
Barthes (By: Jonathan Culler)
1983
8
Locke (By: John Dunn)
1984
9
Augustine (By: Henry Chadwick)
1986
10
Shakespeare (By: Germaine Greer)
1986
11
What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (By: Thomas Nagel)
1987
12
Kierkegaard (By: Patrick L. Gardiner)
1988
13
Wittgenstein (By: A.C. Grayling)
1988
14
The Laws of Thermodynamics (By: Peter Atkins)
1990
15
Privacy (By: Raymond Wacks)
1993
16
Schopenhauer (By: Christopher Janaway)
1994
17
Judaism (By: Norman Solomon)
1996
18
Archaeology (By: Paul G. Bahn)
1997
19
Psychology (By: Gillian Butler)
1998
20
Sociology (By: Steve Bruce)
1999
21
Theology (By: David F. Ford)
1999
22
The Tudors (By: John Guy)
2000
23
Logic (By: Graham Priest)
2000
24
History (By: John H. Arnold)
2000
25
The Bible (By: John Riches)
2000
26
Music: A Very Short Introduction (By: Nicholas Cook)
2000
27
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (By: Michael A. Cook)
2000
28
Planets (By: David A. Rothery)
2000
29
Nineteenth-Century Britain (By: Christopher Harvie, Colin Matthew)
2000
30
Eighteenth-Century Britain (By: Paul Langford)
2000
31
Capitalism (By: James Fulcher)
2001
32
Continental Philosophy (By: Simon Critchley)
2001
33
Postcolonialism (By: Robert J.C. Young)
2001
34
The European Union: A Very Short Introduction (By: John Pinder)
2001
35
Galileo (By: Stillman Drake, Keith Thomas)
2001
36
Emotion (By: Dylan Evans)
2001
37
Russian Literature (By: Catriona Kelly)
2001
38
Drugs (By: Leslie L. Iversen)
2001
39
The French Revolution (By: William Doyle)
2001
40
Mathematics (By: Timothy Gowers)
2002
41
Democracy (By: Bernard Crick)
2002
42
Quantum Theory (By: John C. Polkinghorne)
2002
43
Fascism (By: Kevin Passmore)
2002
44
Empire (By: Stephen Howe)
2002
45
The First World War (By: Michael Eliot Howard)
2002
46
Philosophy of Science (By: Samir Okasha)
2002
47
Animal Rights (By: David DeGrazia)
2002
48
The Penguin History of Economics (By: Roger E. Backhouse)
2002
49
Russell (By: A.C. Grayling)
2002
50
The Russian Revolution (By: S.A. Smith)
2002
51
Choice Theory (By: Michael Allingham)
2002
52
Consciousness (By: Susan Blackmore)
2003
53
Political Philosophy (By: David Miller)
2003
54
Northern Ireland (By: Marc Mulholland)
2003
55
Globalization (By: Manfred B. Steger)
2003
56
The Celts (By: Barry Cunliffe)
2003
57
Ideology (By: Michael Freeden)
2003
58
Presocratic Philosophy (By: Catherine Osborne)
2003
59
The Brain (By: Michael O'Shea)
2003
60
Molecules (By: Philip Ball)
2003
61
The Elements (By: Philip Ball)
2004
62
Kafka (By: Ritchie Robertson)
2004
63
The Crusades (By: Christopher Tyerman)
2004
64
Particle Physics (By: Frank Close)
2004
65
Egyptian Myth (By: Geraldine Pinch)
2004
66
Ancient Egypt (By: Ian Shaw)
2004
67
Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction (By: Harry Sidebottom)
2004
68
Global Warming (By: Mark Maslin)
2004
69
Philosophy (By: Edward Craig)
2004
70
Foucault (By: Gary Gutting)
2005
71
Fossils (By: Keith S. Thomson)
2005
72
The Spanish Civil War (By: Helen Graham)
2005
73
Habermas (By: James Gordon Finlayson)
2005
74
Socialism (By: Michael Newman)
2005
75
Kabbalah (By: Joseph Dan)
2005
76
Existentialism (By: Thomas R. Flynn)
2006
77
The Renaissance (By: Jerry Brotton)
2006
78
Feminism (By: Margaret Walters)
2006
79
The Roman Empire (By: Christopher Kelly)
2006
80
Chaos (By: Leonard A. Smith)
2007
81
Human Rights (By: Andrew Clapham)
2007
82
Antisemitism (By: Steven Beller)
2007
83
Tocqueville (By: Harvey Mansfield Jr.)
2007
84
Documentary Film (By: Patricia Aufderheide)
2007
85
The Cold War
2007
86
International Migration (By: Khalid Koser)
2007
87
Newton (By: Rob Iliffe)
2007
88
Economics (By: Partha Dasgupta)
2007
89
The Great Depression and the New Deal (By: Eric Rauchway)
2007
90
Classical Mythology (By: Helen Morales)
2007
91
Bestsellers (By: John Sutherland)
2007
92
Game Theory (By: David Hume)
2007
93
Geopolitics (By: Klaus Dodds)
2007
94
The History of Life (By: Michael J. Benton)
2008
95
Modern China (By: Rana Mitter)
2008
96
The United Nations (By: Jussi M. Hanhimäki)
2008
97
Nuclear Weapons (By: Joseph M. Siracusa)
2008
98
Galaxies (By: John Gribbin)
2008
99
German Literature (By: Nicholas Boyle)
2008
100
The Old Testament (By: Michael D. Coogan)
2008
101
The New Testament as Literature (By: Kyle Keefer)
2008
102
Sexuality (By: Véronique Mottier)
2008
103
Religion in America (By: Timothy Beal)
2008
104
Nelson Mandela (By: Elleke Boehmer)
2008
105
Statistics (By: David J. Hand)
2008
106
Puritanism (By: Francis J. Bremer)
2008
107
Scotland (By: Rab Houston)
2008
108
The Reagan Revolution (By: Gil Troy)
2009
109
Communism (By: Leslie Holmes)
2009
110
Modern Japan (By: Christopher Goto-Jones)
2009
111
Deserts (By: Nick Middleton)
2009
112
Nothing (By: Frank Close)
2009
113
Biography (By: Hermione Lee)
2009
114
The Soviet Union (By: Stephen Lovell)
2009
115
The Book of Mormon (By: Terryl L. Givens)
2009
116
The Norman Conquest (By: George Garnett)
2009
117
Biblical Archaeology (By: Eric H. Cline)
2009
118
Fashion (By: Rebecca Arnold)
2009
119
Progressivism (By: Walter Nugent)
2009
120
Information (By: Luciano Floridi)
2010
121
Neoliberalism (By: Manfred B. Steger)
2010
122
Numbers (By: Peter M. Higgins)
2010
123
Film Music (By: Kathryn Kalinak)
2010
124
The New Testament (By: Luke Timothy Johnson)
2010
125
Humanism (By: Stephen Law)
2010
126
Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction (By: Malcolm Gaskill)
2010
127
French Literature (By: John D. Lyons)
2010
128
Druids (By: Barry Cunliffe)
2010
129
The U.S. Congress (By: Donald A. Ritchie)
2010
130
The Hebrew Bible as Literature (By: Tod Linafelt)
2010
131
Modernism (By: Christopher Butler)
2010
132
North American Indians (By: Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green)
2010
133
Landscapes and Geomorphology (By: Andrew S. Goudie, Heather Viles)
2010
134
Keynes (By: Robert Skidelsky)
2010
135
Agnosticism (By: Robin Le Poidevin)
2010
136
Aristocracy ( By: William Doyle)
2010
137
Folk Music (By: Mark Slobin)
2010
138
Environmental Economics (By: Stephen Smith)
2011
139
Global Economic History (By: Robert C. Allen)
2011
140
Critical Theory (By: Theodor W. Adorno)
2011
141
Early Music (By: Thomas Forrest Kelly)
2011
142
American Immigration (By: David A. Gerber)
2011
143
Paganism (By: Owen Davies)
2011
144
Nuclear Power (By: Maxwell Irvine)
2011
145
Science Fiction (By: David Seed)
2011
146
Herodotus (By: Jennifer T. Roberts)
2011
147
Dictionaries (By: Lynda Mugglestone)
2011
148
Modern France (By: Vanessa R. Schwartz)
2011
149
Colonial Latin American Literature (By: Rolena Adorno)
2011
150
The Aztecs (By: Davíd Carrasco)
2011
151
The Cultural Revolution (By: Richard Curt Kraus)
2011
152
Modern Latin American Literature (By: Roberto González Echevarría)
2011
153
Reality (By: Jan Westerhoff)
2011
154
The Conquistadors (By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Matthew Restall)
2011
155
The U.S. Supreme Court (By: Linda Greenhouse)
2012
156
Magic (By: Owen Davies)
2012
157
Film (By: Michael Wood)
2012
158
The History of Mathematics (By: Jacqueline A. Stedall)