The World Transformed, 1945 to the Present

About Michael H. Hunt

Michael Hunt is the Everett H. Emerson Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading specialist on international history Hunt is the author of several prize-winning books including The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914 (Columbia 1983. His long-term concern with U.S. foreign relations is reflected in several broad interpretive historiographical and methodological works notably Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (Yale 1987); and Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader (Yale 1996). He has also cultivated an interest in modern East Asia resulting in The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (Columbia 1996) based on new sources and Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam 1945-1968 (Hill and Wang 1996).