The Tragedy of American Diplomacy - Softcover

Williams, William Appleman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393304930 ISBN 13: 9780393304930

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988

Synopsis

One of the first modern historians to integrate economic realities into the study of American foreign policy, William Appleman Williams has been a diplomatic historian of major influence since the first publication of The Tragedy of American Diplomacy.

In this pioneering book, "the man who has really put the counter-tradition together in its modern form" (Saturday Review) examines the profound contradictions between America's ideals and its uses of its vast power, from the Open Door Notes of 1898 to the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.

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About the Author

A former president of the Organization of American Historians, William Appleman Williams taught for many years at the University of Wisconsin and Oregon State University. His books include The Contours of American History, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, and Empire as a Way of Life.

Review

“Stimulating and provocative. . . . A highly interesting contribution to today's great foreign policy debate.”
- American Historical Review

“The influence of Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy . . . is beyond challege. An iconoclastic attack upon conventional wisdom, it is equally important because it framed arguments about its subject. . . . No comprehensive scheme, no broad generalizations, and few but the narrowest studies of episodes in American foreign relations will be written, if they are to shine, without an awareness of and an accommodation to [this book].”
- Bradford Perkins, University of Michigan, in Redefining the Past: Essays in Diplomatic History in Honor of William Appleman Williams

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0393304930
• ISBN 13: 9780393304930
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352