Thomas J. McCormick

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.

Works

• 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.