1st Edition

American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

By Kenneth D. Rose Copyright 2021
364 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars, arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding. During the interwar period, isolationists could be found among Republicans and Democrats, Catholics and Protestants, pacifists and militarists, rich and poor.... Read more

Introduction  1. America and the Peace Conference  2. The Aftermath of Versailles and the Roots of Isolationism  3. American Politics and Internationalism in the 1920s  4. History, Literature an Isolationism  5. The Isolationist Spectrum: Issues, Individuals and Organizations  6. Isolationists: A Gallery  7. Isolationism and Politics in the Roosevelt Era  8. The Counterinsurgents, the Perils of Neutrality, and Pearl Harbor  9. Conclusion

Biography

Kenneth D. Rose is Professor Emeritus in History at California State University, Chico, USA. His other publications include The Great War and Americans in Europe, 1914-1917 (2017), Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900 (2014), Myth and the Greatest Generations: A Social History of Americans and World War II (2008), One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture (2001), and American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition (1996).