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American Business and Foreign Policy

1920–1933

By: Joan Hoff Wilson

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American Business and Foreign Policy

1920–1933

By: Joan Hoff Wilson

With increasing world economic interdependence and a new position as a creditor nation, the American business community became more actively and vocally concerned with foreign policy after World War I than ever before. This book details the response of American businessmen to such foreign policy issues as the tariff, disarmament, allied debts, loans, and the Manchurian crisis. Far from presenting a monolithic front, the business community fragmented into nationalist and internationalist camps, according to this study. Division over each issue varied with the size, type, and geographic region of the various business interests, and despite their formidable economic power, business internationalists are shown to have played a more limited role on certain issues than has been formerly assumed. Unfortunately for the future development of United States diplomacy and world stability, no institutional means for tempering business influence on the formulation of foreign policy, or for coordinating economic and political foreign policies, were developed in the twenties.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813186781

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9780813186788

A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

Dreams of Perfectibility

By: Joan Hoff

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A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

Dreams of Perfectibility

By: Joan Hoff

A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly assumed Faustian overtones, especially during the Cold War and following September 11. The ideological components of American diplomacy, originating in the late 18th and 19th centuries, evolved through the 20th century as U.S. economic and political power steadily increased. Seeing myth making as essential in any country's founding and a common determinant of its foreign policy, Professor Joan Hoff reveals how the basic belief in its exceptionalism has driven America's past and present attempts to remake the world in its own image. She expands her original concept of 'independent internationalism' as the modus operandi of U.S. diplomacy to reveal the many unethical Faustian deals the United States entered into since 1920 to obtain its current global supremacy.

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Cambridge University Press

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A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

Dreams of Perfectibility

By: Joan Hoff

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Dreams of Perfectibility

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American Business and Foreign Policy

1920–1933

By: Joan Hoff Wilson

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1920–1933

By: Joan Hoff Wilson

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Herbert Hoover

Forgotten Progressive

By: Joan Hoff Wilson

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Herbert Hoover

Forgotten Progressive

By: Joan Hoff Wilson

This interesting and insightful book examines the life of one of America’s least favored presidents with a sensitive and objective eye. Herbert Hoover’s career followed a pattern familiar in the history of the United States: humble beginnings surmounted by hard work and tremendous ambition, wealth, public service and, eventually, the presidency. From his Quaker youth he acquired morals and values that he would preserve throughout his entire life. These values ultimately created an unbridgeable gulf between him and U.S. citizens as he confronted the Great Depression soon after taking office. There would always be little comprehension between the president and the people who looked to him for leadership. He died unpopular and isolated, disowned by his own party, embittered by the lack of understanding, and convinced that the burden of blame for the depression had been thrust on him unfairly. This volume seeks to shed light not only on the man and his career, but also on the evolving nation that rejected him

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Waveland Press

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1478631163

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A Family Venture

Men and Women on the Southern Frontier

By: Joan E. Cashin

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A Family Venture

Men and Women on the Southern Frontier

By: Joan E. Cashin

This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Based upon extensive research in planter family papers, Cashin studies how the sexes went to the frontier with diverging agendas: men tried to escape the family, while women tried to preserve it. On the frontier, men usually settled far from relatives, leaving women lonely and disoriented in a strange environment. As kinship networks broke down, sex roles changed, and relations between men and women became more inequitable. Migration also changed race relations, because many men abandoned paternalistic race relations and abused their slaves. However, many women continued to practice paternalism, and a few even sympathized with slaves as they never had before. Drawing on rich archival sources, Cashin examines the decision of families to migrate, the effects of migration on planter family life, and the way old ties were maintained and new ones formed.

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Oxford University Press

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019536385X

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Gender and the Politics of History

By: Joan Wallach Scott

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Gender and the Politics of History

By: Joan Wallach Scott

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social categories are always fundamentally shaped by gender and that questions of gender are essential to considerations of difference in history. Exploring topics ranging from language and class to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a vital contribution to feminist history and historical methodology that also speaks more broadly to the ongoing redefinition of gender in our political and cultural vocabularies. This anniversary edition of a classic text in feminist theory and history shows the evergreen relevance of Scott’s work to the humanities and social sciences. In a new preface, Scott reflects on the book’s legacy and implications for contemporary politics as well as what she has reconsidered as a result of her engagement with psychoanalytic theory. The book also includes a previously unpublished essay, “The Conundrum of Equality,” which takes up the question of affirmative action.

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Columbia University Press

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0231547617

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9780231547611

To be Useful to the World

Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790

By: Joan R. Gundersen

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Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790

By: Joan R. Gundersen

Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807856975

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9780807856970

Dictionary of American History

Supplement

By: Robert H. Ferrell,Joan Hoff

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Dictionary of American History

Supplement

By: Robert H. Ferrell,Joan Hoff

In 757 articles, of which 469 are on new topics, this supplement attempts to cover recent monumental changes in American civilization from the impact of foreign affairs, through domestic political events, Supreme Court decisions, medical and scientific discoveries, social changes, popular cultural evolution, and religious developments.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

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0684195798

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9780684195797

Herbert Hoover

Forgotten Progressive

By: Joan Hoff Wilson

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Forgotten Progressive

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Without Precedent

The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Susan Gubar,Joseph P. Lash

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The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Susan Gubar,Joseph P. Lash

Depicts the political activities of Eleanor Roosevelt and examines her influence on American social policies and the Democratic Party

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0253203279

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American Business and Foreign Policy

American Business and Foreign Policy

A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

American Business and Foreign Policy

American Business and Foreign Policy

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

A Family Venture

A Family Venture

Gender and the Politics of History

Gender and the Politics of History

To be Useful to the World

To be Useful to the World

Dictionary of American History

Dictionary of American History

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

Without Precedent

Without Precedent

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