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In this new work, one of the world's leading historians of US
foreign relations, Lloyd E.Ambrosius, addresses enduring questions
about American political culture and statecraft by focusing on
President Woodrow Wilson and the United States in international
relations during and after World War I. Updated to include recent
historiography as well as an original introduction and conclusion,
Woodrow Wilson and American Internationalism features nine
different essays closely linked together by the themes of Wilson's
understanding of Americanism, his diplomacy to create a new world
order in the wake of World War I, and the legacy of his foreign
policy. Examining the exclusive as well as universal dimensions of
Wilsonianism, Ambrosius assesses not only Wilson's role during his
presidency but also his legacy in defining America's place in world
history. Speaking to the transnational turn in American history,
Ambrosius shows how Wilson's liberal internationalist vision of a
new world order would shape US foreign relations for the next
century.
This study, based on extensive research in private papers as well
as published sources, offers a reinterpretation of the US Senate's
refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the first of
the great debates over the role of the United States in world
politics.
The historian as biographer must resolve questions that reflect the
dual challenge of telling history and telling lives: How does the
biographer sort out the individual's role within the larger
historical context? How do biographical studies relate to other
forms of history? Should historians use different approaches to
biography, depending on the cultures of their subjects? What are
the appropriate primary sources and techniques that scholars should
use in writing biographies in their respective fields? In Writing
Biography, six prominent historians address these issues and
reflect on their varied experiences and divergent perspectives as
biographers. Shirley A. Leckie examines the psychological and
personal connections between biographer and subject; R. Keith
Schoppa considers the pervasive effect of culture on the
recognition of individuality and the presentation of a life; Retha
M. Warnicke explores past context and modern cultural biases in
writing the biographies of Tudor women; John Milton Cooper Jr.
discusses the challenges of writing modern biographies and the
interplay of the biographer's own experiences; Nell Irvin Painter
looks at the process of reconstructing a life when written
documents are scant; and Robert J. Richards investigates the
intimate relationship between life experiences and new ideas.
Despite their broad range of perspectives, all six scholars agree
on two central points: biography and historical analysis are
inextricably linked, and biographical studies offer an important
tool for analyzing historical questions. Lloyd E. Ambrosius is a
professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His
books include Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in
American Foreign Relations and Woodrow Wilson and the American
Diplomatic Tradition.
In this new work, one of the world's leading historians of US
foreign relations, Lloyd E.Ambrosius, addresses enduring questions
about American political culture and statecraft by focusing on
President Woodrow Wilson and the United States in international
relations during and after World War I. Updated to include recent
historiography as well as an original introduction and conclusion,
Woodrow Wilson and American Internationalism features nine
different essays closely linked together by the themes of Wilson's
understanding of Americanism, his diplomacy to create a new world
order in the wake of World War I, and the legacy of his foreign
policy. Examining the exclusive as well as universal dimensions of
Wilsonianism, Ambrosius assesses not only Wilson's role during his
presidency but also his legacy in defining America's place in world
history. Speaking to the transnational turn in American history,
Ambrosius shows how Wilson's liberal internationalist vision of a
new world order would shape US foreign relations for the next
century.
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