To End All Social Reform: A Progressive's Search for International Order
| Autor: | Thomas D. Schoonover, Thomas J. Knock |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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| Zdroj: | Reviews in American History. 21:647 |
| ISSN: | 0048-7511 1877-1920 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/2703407 |
| Popis: | Thomas J. Knock has benefited from the guidance of his mentor, Arthur Link, the dean of Wilsonian scholars, and scores of other scholars who have pursued Wilson's impact upon the U.S. past. In the past decade alone, at least fourteen major works have analyzed and interpreted Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy.1 All of these scholars have profited from Link's edition of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (69 vols.). Knock's claim to attention does not rest upon being the first, but rather upon being one of the better travelers on the poorly marked trail that connects domestic affairs and foreign relations. He turns away from most of the earlier efforts at explaining President Woodrow Wilson and the post-World War I peace arrangements because he finds that they focus too extensively upon the narrow time period of 1917 to 1920 (or 1914 to 1920). Additionally, while some students describe Wilson as a novice in international relations, Knock considers him the president best prepared to handle international relations since John Quincy Adams. Several decades ago, Robert Wiebe focused upon the domestic search for order (The Searchfor Order, 1877-1920, 1967), yet developed a useful perspective on the role of foreign relations in that search. Knock describes Wilson's "quest for a New World Order" by studying the domestic formation of opinion and the link between domestic politics and the internationalism needed to bring peace, tranquility, and order on a world scale. Knock offers a corrective to a realist school, which frequently critiques Wilson's conduct in foreign affairs without considering the limitations domestic affairs placed upon his activity. Wiebe's search for order was institutional and systemic, while Knock's examination of Wilson's search for a new world order is biographical and thus focused upon individuals or small groups. Yet for both, U.S. society from the 1880s to the 1920s was searching for order (at home and abroad) at a time when domestic America was undergoing strikes, massive unemployment |
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