Isolationism : a history of America's efforts to shield itself from the world /
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- American isolationism: past as prelude?
- An anatomy of isolationism
- Part I: The era of isolationism, 1789-1898. The Revolutionary era: contemplating nonentanglement
- From the French Revolution to the War of 1812: isolationism as doctrine
- Westward expansion and the Monroe Doctrine: the limits of hemispheric ambition
- The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of American power: restraint amid ascent
- Part II: The defeat of realist and idealist internationalism, 1898-1941. The Spanish-American War and the onset of imperial ambition
- Republican imperialism and the isolationist backlash
- Wilsonian idealism and the isolationist backlash
- The 1920s: influence without responsibility
- From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor: delusions of strategic immunity
- Part III: The rise and fall of liberal internationalism, 1941-2020. World War II and the Cold War: the era of liberal internationalism
- The end of the Cold War, overreach, and the isolationist comeback
- Where isolationism and liberal internationalism meet: the search for a middle ground.