The tragedy of American diplomacy / William Appleman Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, William Appleman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

United States.

International relations.

Physical Description:

v, 334 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 1988, c1972.

Summary:

One of the first modern historians to integrate economic realities into the study of American foreign policy, William Appleman Williams has been a diplomatic historian of major influence since the first publication of The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. In this pioneering book, "the man who has really put the counter-tradition together in its modern form" (Saturday Review) examines the profound contradictions between America's ideals and its uses of its vast power, from the Open Door Notes of 1898'to the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.

Contents:

Introduction: History and the Transcendence of the Tragic viii

Chapter 1 Imperial Anticolonialism 18

I The Transformation of the Expansionist Outlook

II The Crisis of the 1890s and the Turn to Imperialism

Chapter 2 The Imperialism of Idealism 58

Chapter 3 The Rising Tide of Revolution 90

Chapter 4 The Legend of Isolationism 108

I A Great Debate Over the Tactics of Empire

II The Internationalization of Business

Chapter 5 The War for the American Frontier 162

Chapter 6 The Nightmare of Depression and the Vision of Omnipotence 202

I Roosevelt and Stalin Confront the Dilemmas of Victory

II The Open Door Policy and the Onset of the Cold War

III A New Vision of Omnipotence and A Misreading of History Prompt the United States to Overplay Its Hand

IV The Diplomacy of the Vicious Circle

Chapter 7 The Impotence of Nuclear Supremacy 276

Chapter 8 The Terrifying Momentum Toward Disaster 294

Conclusion: The Wisdom of an Open Door for Revolutions 306

"The Tragedy of American Diplomacy": Twenty-five Years After / Bradford Perkins 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0393304930 :

OCLC:

18472516