@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674061187,
      recid = {1399537},
      author = {Nichols, Christopher McKnight.},
      title = {Promise and peril America at the dawn of a global age /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674061187},
      pages = {1 online resource (445 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Spreading democracy abroad or taking care of business at  home is a tension as current as the war in Afghanistan and  as old as America itself. Tracing the history of  isolationist and internationalist ideas from the 1890s  through the 1930s, Nichols reveals unexpected connections  among individuals and groups from across the political  spectrum who developed new visions for America's place in  the world. From Henry Cabot Lodge and William James to  W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams to Randolph Bourne, William  Borah, and Emily Balch, Nichols shows how reformers,  thinkers, and politicians confronted the challenges of  modern society--and then grappled with urgent pressures to  balance domestic priorities and foreign commitments. Each  articulated a distinct strain of thought, and each was part  of a sprawling national debate over America's global role.  Through these individuals, Nichols conducts us into the  larger community as it strove to reconcile America's  founding ideals and ideas about isolation with the  realities of the nation's burgeoning affluence, rising  global commerce, and new opportunities for worldwide  cultural exchange. The resulting interrelated set of  isolationist and internationalist principles provided the  basis not just for many foreign policy arguments of the era  but also for the vibrant as well as negative connotations  that isolationism still possesses. Nichols offers a bold  way of understanding the isolationist and internationalist  impulses that shaped the heated debates of the early  twentieth century and that continue to influence thinking  about America in the world today.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1399537},
}