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Charles Austin Beard : the return of the master historian of American imperialism / Richard Drake.
LIBRA E175.5.B38 D73 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drake, Richard, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948.
- Beard, Charles A.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- History.
- Historiography.
- International relations.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century--Historiography.
- United States--History--20th century--Historiography.
- Diplomatic relations--Historiography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 315 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "In the face of the ruinous costs of empire, about which Charles Austin Beard warned at the time of the Second World War, the life and work of this American prophet merit reexamination today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the Beardian interpretation of American history
- Discovering the economic taproot of imperialism
- Two contrasting progressive views of the Great War
- Becoming a revisionist
- Washington and Wall Street working together for war
- Isolationism versus internationalism
- A wartime trilogy
- Waging war for the four freedoms
- Beard finds an ally in Herbert Hoover
- Attacking "the Saint"
- Defending Beard after the fall
- Beard's philosophy of history and American imperialism
- Conclusion : the sad historian of the pensive plain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Drake, Richard, 1942- Charles Austin Beard.
- ISBN:
- 9781501715167
- 150171516X
- OCLC:
- 1028884798
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