Carl Parrini (February 22, 1933 - December 13, 2016) was an American historian. For many years he taught at

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. He was a specialist in US diplomatic history. Born in

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, he attended the

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before transferring to and graduating from the

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, where he received a B.A. (1955).''Directory of American Scholars'', 6th ed. (Bowker, 1974), Vol. I, p. 482. He continued there as a graduate student, where he studied closely with

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, and

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, receiving his M.A. in 1956. William A. Williams directed his doctoral dissertation, a study of U.S. economic diplomacy during the

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and

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administrations that Parrini completed in 1963. He was in an academic cohort at Madison, influenced by Williams, that included

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, David Healy, and Robert F. Smith, often referred to as the " Wisconsin school" in the historiography of United States foreign relations. He taught at

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, the

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, and the

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before landing a tenure-track position at Northern Illinois.

Bibliography

*''Heir to Empire: United States Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923'' (1969) *Parrini and Martin J. Sklar, "New Thinking about the Marker, 1896-1904: Some American Economists on Investment and the Theory of Surplus Capital," ''

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'' 43:3 (September 1983): 559-578. *"Theories of Imperialism," in Lloyd C. Gardner, ed., ''Redefining the Past: Essays in Diplomatic History in Honor of William Appleman Williams'' ( Corvallis:

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, 1986): 65-84. *"Charles A. Conant, Economic Crises and Foreign Policy, 1896-1903" in Thomas J. McCormick and Walter LaFeber, eds., ''Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968'' (

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, 1993): 35-66.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Parrini, Carl 1933 births 2016 deaths Writers from Rochester, New York University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni Northern Illinois University faculty Historians from New York (state) Historians of American foreign relations