Sobre l'autor
Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His Columbia University Press books include A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign mostra'n més Relations (2018) and East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World (2000). mostra'n menys
Obres de Warren I. Cohen
The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Vol 4: America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991 (1993) 69 exemplars
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Vol 4: Challenges to American Primacy, 1945 to the Present (2013) 18 exemplars
The Chinese Connection: Roger S. Greene, Thomas W. Lamont, George E. Sokolsky and American-East Asian Relations (1978) 7 exemplars
Intervention, 1917; why America fought 3 exemplars
Hong Kong under Chinese Rule: The Economic and Political Implications of Reversion (Cambridge Modern China Series) (1997) 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1934-06-20
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Educació
- University of Washington (PhD|History|1962
- Professions
- historian
university professor emeritus
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
All Things China (1)
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 23
- Membres
- 313
- Popularitat
- #75,401
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 60
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 1
During the 1920s some key historians (Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles Beard, C. Hartley Grattan, and Charles Callan Tansill) asserted, among other things, that American involvement had been driven by other, more base reasons. Namely, it was argued that the American economy benefitted greatly from trade in munitions to Europe (meaning the Allied powers), and this was facilitated through loans. Not only were manufacturers making wind-fall profits, but bankers needed to be assured that the Allies would win the war or their loans would become worthless. This pushed the Wilson Administration, which already had a tilt toward Britain, to further lean toward the Allied cause. Thus, the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany was merely the casus belli that the Administration needed to ask Congress for a war declaration. The result was a revulsion at the realisation that so many Americans had been sacrificed in a war that was entered to support war profits for the few. These arguments, Cohen asserts, formed the basis of the isolationist movement in American in the 1930s as people sensed the possibility of another European war on the horizon.
This is a fascinating book that traces the formation of intellectual thinking during the interwar years. It goes a long way in explaining the emergence of an isolationist movement in American in the 1930s. Further, it illuminates the trajectory of thought that linked the first to the second World War.… (més)