A William Appleman Williams Reader Selections From His Major Historical Writings

by Berger, Henry W.

• ISBN13: 9781566630023
• ISBN10: 1566630029
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

Twenty-one selections from his major historical writings, offering the key arguments of the most influential and controversial American historian of his generation. The history of U.S. relations with the rest of the world cannot be written without taking into account Williams' work. --Booklist

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Introduction	p. 11
The Birth of Containment	p. 37
A Second Look at Mr. X	p. 68
The Legend of Isolationism in the 1920's	p. 75
The Frontier Thesis and American Foreign Policy	p. 89
Charles Austin Beard: The Intellectual as Tory-Radical	p. 105
Imperial Anticolonialism	p. 116
The Nightmare of Depression and the Vision of Omnipotence	p. 133
The Wisdom of an Open Door for Revolutions	p. 156
The Age of Mercantilism, 1740-1828	p. 162
The Age of Laissez Nous Faire, 1819-1896	p. 221
The Age of Corporation Capitalism, 1882-	p. 239
The Central Utility of Marx	p. 267
A Survey of the Territory	p. 276
What This Country Needs	p. 324
Confessions of an Intransigent Revisionist	p. 336
Let Us Make Our Own Future with the Help of the Past	p. 345
The Empire at Bay	p. 360
Thoughts on the Comparative Uses of Power	p. 376
The Annapolis Crowd	p. 385
Afterword	p. 393
Bibliography	p. 399
Index	p. 405
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