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The Open Door Era: United States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
Michael Patrick Cullinane
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In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hay's diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of Manifest Destiny'shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world safe ... Read more
In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hay's diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of Manifest Destiny'shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world safe ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Paperbacks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474401319
SKU
V9781474401319
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About Michael Patrick Cullinane
Michael Patrick Cullinane is Reader in US History at Northumbria University and the author of Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1909 and co-editor of US Foreign Policy and the Other. Alex Goodall is Senior Lecturer in International History at UCL and the author of Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War One to the McCarthy Era.
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