Charles Austin Beard : : The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism / / Richard Drake.
Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard's life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Beardian Interpretation of American History
- 1. Discovering the Economic Taproot of Imperialism
- 2. Two Contrasting Progressive Views of the Great War
- 3. Becoming a Revisionist
- 4. Washington and Wall Street Working Together for War
- 5. Isolationism versus Internationalism
- 6. A Wartime Trilogy
- 7. Waging War for the Four Freedoms
- 8. Beard Finds an Ally in Herbert Hoover
- 9. Attacking “the Saint”
- 10. Defending Beard after the Fall
- 11. Beard’s Philosophy of History and American Imperialism
- Conclusion: The Sad Historian of the Pensive Plain
- Notes
- Index