The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

by Williams, William Appleman

• ISBN13: 9780393304930
• ISBN10: 0393304930
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-08-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

A former president of the Organization of American Historians, William Appleman Williams was Alumni Association Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Oregon State University

Table of Contents

Introduction: History and the Transcendence of the Tragic	p. viii
Imperial Anticolonialism	p. 18
The Transformation of the Expansionist Outlook
The Crisis of the 1890s and the Turn to Imperialism
The Imperialism of Idealism	p. 58
The Rising Tide of Revolution	p. 90
The Legend of Isolationism	p. 108
A Great Debate Over the Tactics of Empire
The Internationalization of Business
The War for the American Frontier	p. 162
The Nightmare of Depression and the Vision of Omnipotence	p. 202
Roosevelt and Stalin Confront the Dilemmas of Victory
The Open Door Policy and the Onset of the Cold War
A New Vision of Omnipotence and A Misreading of History Prompt the United States to Overplay Its Hand
The Diplomacy of the Vicious Circle
The Impotence of Nuclear Supremacy	p. 276
The Terrifying Momentum Toward Disaster	p. 294
Conclusion: The Wisdom of an Open Door for Revolutions	p. 306
"The Tragedy of American Diplomacy": Twenty-five Years After	p. 313
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