The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
WW Norton · Print & ebook · March 24, 2009
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- Who it’s for
- A layered interpretation of how ideology and political economy shaped American expansion and foreign policy.
- Themes
- American foreign policy, Expansion and empire, Ideology and political economy
- Genres
- Diplomacy, 20th-Century America, Trade & Tariffs
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“A brilliant book on foreign affairs.”—Adolf A. Berle Jr., New York Times Book Review This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that shed light on the tensions of the Cold War and the deeper impulses leading to the American intervention in Vietnam.
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William Appleman Williams brilliantly explores the ways in which ideology and political economy intertwined over time to propel American expansion and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The powerful relevance of Williams’s interpretation to world politics has only been strengthened by recent events in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. Williams allows us to see that the interests and beliefs that once sent American troops into Texas and California, or Latin America and East Asia, also propelled American forces into Iraq.
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A layered interpretation of how ideology and political economy shaped American expansion and foreign policy.
Come here for
- Follow the long connections between domestic interests and overseas intervention
- Think through American diplomacy beyond the headlines of any one era
Expect
- A sustained argument spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- A lens on Cold War tensions and later interventions
Where it sits
| Diplomacy | 91% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century America | 56% |
| Trade & Tariffs | 17% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Diplomacy
- Authors
- William Appleman Williams
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- March 24, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- American foreign policy · Expansion and empire · Ideology and political economy
- Reading lane
- Diplomacy