Friday, September 09, 2011

A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt (Wiley-Blackwell)

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A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt
Serge Ricard (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3140-0
Hardcover
608 pages
September 16, 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
£110.00 / €132.00 Add to Cart

  • Description
  • Table of Contents
  • Author Information
  • Reviews
List of Figures x
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction: An All-Time Historian's Favorite 1
Serge Ricard
1. The Education of Theodore Roosevelt 8
Michael L. Collins
2. Theodore Roosevelt’s Early Political Career: The Making of an Independent Republican and Urban Progressive 27
Edward P. Kohn
3. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Spanish-American War Hero 45
Joseph Smith
4. The Rough Rider as Super-Politician: Theodore Roosevelt's Ascendancy on the National Political Stage 59
Steven Doherty
5. Preparedness and Defense: The Origins of Theodore Roosevelt's Strategy for the United States on the International Stage 78
J. Simon Rofe
6. Roosevelt’s Republic 94
Joshua D. Hawley
7. Sex and Gender in Roosevelt’s America 112
Andrew M. Johnston
8. "A Serious Art and Literature of Our Own": Exploring Theodore Roosevelt's Art World 135
Stephen L. Levine
9. Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential Power and the Regulation of the Market 154
Gary Murphy
10. The Quality of Theodore Roosevelt’s Environmentalism 173
Ethan Fishman
11. Theodore Roosevelt and the Indians 186
Roger L. Nichols
12. "Half a Southerner": President Roosevelt, African Americans and the South 198
Adam D. Burns
13. Theodore Roosevelt and the Press 216
John M. Thompson
14. Theodore Roosevelt and the Joys of Family Life 237
Jon L. Brudvig
15. The Global Strategist: The Navy as the Nation’s Big Stick 257
Carl Cavanagh Hodge
16. Theodore Roosevelt, the Panama Canal, and the Roosevelt Corollary: Sphere of Influence Diplomacy 274
Stephen G. Rabe
17. Theodore Roosevelt and Canada: Alaska, the "Big Stick" and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1901–1909 293
Tony McCulloch
18. Anglo-American Partnership: The Foundation of Theodore Roosevelt's Foreign Policy 314
William N. Tilchin
19. Theodore Roosevelt and the "Special Relationship" with France 329
David G. Haglund
20. America’s First Intervention in European Politics: Theodore Roosevelt and the European Crisis of 1905–1906 350
Douglas Eden
21. The End of an Era: Theodore Roosevelt and the Treaty of Portsmouth 368
Eugene P. Trani and Donald E. Davis
22. Japanese-American Relations: The 1906 California Crisis, the Gentlemen’s Agreement, and the World Cruise 391
David S. Patterson
23. "Uplifting the Barbarian" 417
Carol C. Chin
24. Roosevelt in Africa 435
Patricia O'Toole
25. The New Nationalism and Progressive Issues: The Break with Taft and the 1912 Campaign 452
Claire Delahaye
26. The Great War, Americanism Revisited, and the Anti-Wilson Crusade 468
Lloyd E. Ambrosius
27. Theodore Roosevelt’s Contradictory Legacies: From Imperialist Nationalism to Advocacy of a Progressive Welfare State 485
Kathleen M. Dalton
28. The Memory of Theodore Roosevelt through Motion Pictures 502
M. Patrick Cullinane
Conclusion: A Rooseveltian Century? 521
Serge Ricard
Bibliography 528
Index 561

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