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The Great War and American foreign policy, 1914-24 / Robert E. Hannigan.
Author
Hannigan, Robert E.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xii, 354 pages ; 24 cm.
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D619 .H275 2017
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World War, 1914-1918
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United States
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World War, 1914-1918
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Diplomatic history
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United States
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Foreign relations
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1913-1921
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United States
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Foreign relations
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1921-1923
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United States
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Foreign relations
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1923-1929
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Wilson, Woodrow 1856-1924
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Haney Foundation series
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World War I constituted a milestone in the development of the United States as a world power. As the European powers exhausted themselves during the conflict, the U.S. government deployed its growing economic leverage, its military might, and its diplomacy to shape the outcome of the war and to influence the future of international relations. In The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-24, Robert E. Hannigan challenges the conventional belief that the United States entered World War I only because its hand was forced, and he disputes the claim that Washington was subsequently driven by a desire to make the world "safe for democracy." Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric emphasized peace, self-determination, and international cooperation. But his foreign policy, Hannigan claims, is better understood if analyzed against the backdrop of American policy--not only toward Europe but also toward East Asia, Canada, and Latin America--as it had been developing since the turn of the twentieth century. On the broadest level, Wilson sought to shore up and stabilize an international order promoted and presided over by London since the early 1800s, in the conviction that under such conditions the United States would inevitably ascend to a global position comparable to, if not eclipsing, that of Great Britain. Hannigan argues, moreover, that these fundamental objectives continued to guide Wilson's Republican successors in their efforts to stabilize the postwar world. The book examines the years when the United States was ostensibly neutral (1914-17), the subsequent period of American military involvement (1917-18), the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the ensuing battle for ratification of the Treaty of Versailles (1919-20), and the activities of Wilson's successors--culminating in the Dawes Plan of 1924. -- Inside jacket flaps.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-344) and index.
Contents
Part I. Background (1890s-1914)
1. The United States steps out
-- Part II. American "neutrality" (1914-17)
2. Washington reacts (1914-15)
3. Pursuing a seat at the table (1916-17)
4. China and Latin America (1914-17)
-- Part III. Military intervention (1917-18). 5. "The whole force of the nation"
6. To the fourteen points address
7. Casting every selfish dominion down in the dust (1918)
-- Part IV. The Paris settlement (1919-20)
8. The future of Europe
and the world
9. The Treaty of Versailles
10. Americans in Paris : the Russian Revolution, the Royal Navy, power in the Western Hemisphere
11. Americans in Paris : the colonial world
12. Americans in Paris : the Adriatic and Shandong controversies
13. The campaigns for treaty ratification (summer 1919-20)
-- Part V. The Republicans try their hands (1921-24). 14. Latin America and China
15. Europe.
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ISBN
9780812248593 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0812248597 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016026518
OCLC
952139164
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40026704503
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