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The Open Door Era
Cullinane, Michael Patrick; Godall, Alex
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Description for The Open Door Era
Hardback. Examines the Open Door, the most influential U.S. foreign policy of the twentieth century Series: Baas Paperbacks. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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 ... 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Baas Paperbacks
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474401302
SKU
V9781474401302
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About Cullinane, Michael Patrick; Godall, Alex
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 a Senior Lecturer in International History at UCL and the author of Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War One to the McCarthy Era.
Reviews for The Open Door Era
In this engaging book, Michael Cullinane and Alex Goodall forensically dissect and analyse one of the great shibboleths of U.S. foreign relations. Though the Open Door arose from enlightened ideas of international engagement, the authors demonstrate both its limits when it came to policy implementation and how it became a contested symbol for critics at home and beyond. Jay Sexton, ... Read more