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eflects changes through 48 new essays, among them African Americans, Culturalimperialism, Gender, Multinational corporations, Outer space, Refugee policies, and, ofcourse, Terrorism and counterterrorism. Others have been dropped, including thosedealing with conscription, detente, the Fourteen Points, the Truman Doctrine, the KingCotton theory, and missionaries. This list argues in favor of retention rather than disposalof the old edition. Bibliographies have been thoroughly updated to account for newscholarship and thinking on enduring topics as well as to provide leads to additionalresources on new ones. Most items include informative, brief descriptive annotations. Seealso references at the conclusion of each article also provide pointers for furtherexploration. By covering the somewhat specialized concerns of the foreign policy"establishment" (e.g., Deterrence, Extraterritoriality, Protectorates and spheres ofinfluence ) as well as those forces the public observes in foreign relations (e.g.,Nationalism, Race and ethnicity, Religion), the encyclopedia meets the needs of bothacademic users and the curious citizen seeking greater understanding of foreign affairs.The academic specialists who wrote the articles kept this latter audience in mind.The broad topical essays in the revised Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policycomplement the country-by-country treatment and biographies of diplomats andstatesmen that predominate in the Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (Oxford, 1997).Both are essential to academic collections, and the former merits exposure to the broaderaudience public libraries serve.Keywords: American legislative system, encyclopediaEncyclopedia of the American Legislative System. Silbey, H.J., Gale Group, 1996.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684196026/qid=1082425877/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-1404922-2673704?v=glance&s=booksProvides studies of the principal structures, processes, and policies of Congress and thestate legislatures since the colonial era.Keywords: American legislative system, encyclopediaEncyclopedia of the American Legislative System, Studies of the PrincipalStructures, Processes, and Policies of Congress and the State Legislatures Since theColonial Era. Silbey, Joel H., New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684196026/qid=1083557187/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2334756-3026533?v=glance&s=booksHistory, election, structure, processes, public policy, and relation to other politicalbranches of both the national and state legislatures. 3 volumes.Keywords: colonial era, encyclopedia, political history, political structure110