Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 The age of European domination
- 2 The Great War and American neutrality
- 3 The United States at war
- 4 The Versailles peace
- 5 The 1920s: the security aspect
- 6 The 1920s: the economic aspect
- 7 The 1920s: the cultural aspect
- 8 The collapse of international order
- 9 Totalitarianism and the survival of democracy
- 10 The emergence of geopolitics
- 11 The road to Pearl Harbor
- 12 The global conflict
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS
Bibliographic Essay
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- 1 The age of European domination
- 2 The Great War and American neutrality
- 3 The United States at war
- 4 The Versailles peace
- 5 The 1920s: the security aspect
- 6 The 1920s: the economic aspect
- 7 The 1920s: the cultural aspect
- 8 The collapse of international order
- 9 Totalitarianism and the survival of democracy
- 10 The emergence of geopolitics
- 11 The road to Pearl Harbor
- 12 The global conflict
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS
Summary
1913-1921
On the origins of World War I, the best summary of various factors and interpretations is offered by James Joll, The Origins of the First World War (London, 1984). On United States neutrality during 1914-17, the standard work is Ernest R. May, The World War and American Isolation (Cambridge, Mass., 1959). There is a voluminous amount of writings on President Woodrow Wilson’s diplomacy both during the period of neutrality and after the decision for war. The most detailed and reliable study is the multivolume biography by Arthur S. Link, of which two volumes are particularly relevant: Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality (Princeton, I960), and Wilson: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace (Princeton, 1965). For a more compact survey, see Robert H. Ferrell, Woodrow Wilson and World War I (New York, 1985). An extremely interesting contrast between Wilson and former president Theodore Roosevelt is drawn in John Milton Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest (New York, 1983). See also the same author’s The Vanity of Power (Westport, Conn., 1969) for a discussion of antiinterventionism during the war.
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- The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations , pp. 217 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993