Charles Austin Beard - The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism (Hardcover)

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 the two world wars. In a radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the European dimension of Beard's thought at the center, correcting previous biographers' oversights and presenting a far more nuanced appreciation for Beard's life. Drake analyzes the stages of Beard's development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Charles Austin Beard shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costs—both financial and moral—of nation-building and informal empire, the life and work of this prophet of history merit a thorough reexamination.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Richard Drake (Lucille Speer Research Chair in Politics and History)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-1516-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > History > Theory & methods > General
LSN:	1-5017-1516-X
Barcode:	9781501715167

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