United States foreign policy in the interwar period, 1918-1941 :
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[Book]
Other Title Information
the golden age of American diplomatic and military complacency /
First Statement of Responsibility
Benjamin D. Rhodes.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Westport, Conn. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Praeger,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (230 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Praeger studies of foreign policies of the great powers,
ISSN of Series
1090-8226
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. United States Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period: A Historiographical Overview; 2. Wilson and Democratic Peacemaking: A Tragic Beginning to the Interwar Era; 3. Harding, Hughes, and Republican Moral Diplomacy; 4. Foreign Policy Under Coolidge and Kellogg: A Relative Bed of Roses; 5. Foreign Policy Under Hoover and Stimson: A Bed of Pain; 6. Early New Deal Foreign Policy: The Limits of Improvisation; 7. The Good Neighbor Policy: A Bipartisan Accomplishment; 8. Congressional Neutrality: Roosevelt, the British, and Bankers as Performing Circus Animals.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This study presents an in-depth survey of the principal policies and personalities of American diplomacy of the era, together with a discussion of recent historiography in the field. For two decades between the two world wars, America pursued a foreign policy course that was, according to Rhodes, shortsighted and self-centered. Believing World War I had been an aberration, Americans na^Dively signed disarmament treaties and a pact renouncing war, while eschewing such inconveniences as enforcement machinery or participation in international organizations. Smug moral superiority, a penurious des.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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Title
United States foreign policy in the interwar period, 1918-1941.
International Standard Book Number
9780275948252
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Statesmen-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Außenpolitik
Buitenlandse politiek.
Diplomatic relations-- Historiography.
Diplomatic relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- General.
Statesmen.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Foreign relations, 20th century, Historiography.