Geir Lundestad
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266685
- eISBN:
- 9780191601057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266689.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Provides the historical setting for the relationship between the US and Western Europe before 1945. The account starts with the British–American war of 1812, and goes on to America's ...
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Provides the historical setting for the relationship between the US and Western Europe before 1945. The account starts with the British–American war of 1812, and goes on to America's military–political isolation up to its 1917 declaration of war on Germany. It then looks at the inter‐war years, when American isolationism hardened, and continues until the entry of the US into the Second World War after Pearl Harbour and Hitler's ensuing declaration of war on America. Both American isolationism and the cultural Americanization of Europe are discussed in some detail.Less
Provides the historical setting for the relationship between the US and Western Europe before 1945. The account starts with the British–American war of 1812, and goes on to America's military–political isolation up to its 1917 declaration of war on Germany. It then looks at the inter‐war years, when American isolationism hardened, and continues until the entry of the US into the Second World War after Pearl Harbour and Hitler's ensuing declaration of war on America. Both American isolationism and the cultural Americanization of Europe are discussed in some detail.
Mark Weston Janis
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199579341
- eISBN:
- 9780191722653
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579341.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Legal History
This book is an exploration of the ways in which Americans have perceived, applied, advanced, and frustrated international law. It demonstrates the varieties and continuities of America's approaches ...
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This book is an exploration of the ways in which Americans have perceived, applied, advanced, and frustrated international law. It demonstrates the varieties and continuities of America's approaches to international law. The book begins with the important role the law of nations played for founders like Jefferson and Madison in framing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It then discusses the intellectual contributions to international law made by leaders in the New Republic — Kent and Wheaton — and the place of international law in the 19th century judgments of Marshall, Story, and Taney. The book goes on to examine the contributions of American utopians — Dodge, Worcester, Ladd, Burritt, and Carnegie — to the establishment of the League of Nations, the World Court, the International Law Association, and the American Society of International Law. It finishes with an analysis of the wavering support to international law given by Woodrow Wilson and the emergence of a new American isolationism following the disappointment of World War I.Less
This book is an exploration of the ways in which Americans have perceived, applied, advanced, and frustrated international law. It demonstrates the varieties and continuities of America's approaches to international law. The book begins with the important role the law of nations played for founders like Jefferson and Madison in framing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It then discusses the intellectual contributions to international law made by leaders in the New Republic — Kent and Wheaton — and the place of international law in the 19th century judgments of Marshall, Story, and Taney. The book goes on to examine the contributions of American utopians — Dodge, Worcester, Ladd, Burritt, and Carnegie — to the establishment of the League of Nations, the World Court, the International Law Association, and the American Society of International Law. It finishes with an analysis of the wavering support to international law given by Woodrow Wilson and the emergence of a new American isolationism following the disappointment of World War I.
Peter M. R. Stirk
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748622900
- eISBN:
- 9780748652730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622900.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Exile was a European-wide phenomenon, but Germans and Austrians accounted for about two-thirds of those who left Europe for America. Some fell within the grip of National Socialism or its allies for ...
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Exile was a European-wide phenomenon, but Germans and Austrians accounted for about two-thirds of those who left Europe for America. Some fell within the grip of National Socialism or its allies for a second time, and some did not survive. Others found refuge in the handful of countries that managed to remain neutral throughout the war, such as Switzerland or England. Exile meant being deprived of German citizenship and, for German Jews, being exposed to the anti-semitic prejudices of the police and immigration officials across Europe and in the new world. The road to the heterogeneous coalition that finally defeated Germany was a long and tortuous one. Appeasement, American isolationism, the alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union and the subsequent German invasion of the Soviet Union formed the backcloth for an interpretation of the international order as one governed by suspicion and uncertainty.Less
Exile was a European-wide phenomenon, but Germans and Austrians accounted for about two-thirds of those who left Europe for America. Some fell within the grip of National Socialism or its allies for a second time, and some did not survive. Others found refuge in the handful of countries that managed to remain neutral throughout the war, such as Switzerland or England. Exile meant being deprived of German citizenship and, for German Jews, being exposed to the anti-semitic prejudices of the police and immigration officials across Europe and in the new world. The road to the heterogeneous coalition that finally defeated Germany was a long and tortuous one. Appeasement, American isolationism, the alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union and the subsequent German invasion of the Soviet Union formed the backcloth for an interpretation of the international order as one governed by suspicion and uncertainty.
