Overview
- Revitalizes and internationalizes scholarship on this most popular and highly-rated American president
- Covers many aspects of Roosevelt’s personality and his policies, domestic and foreign, to create a complete picture of the man
- Provides scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, from established Roosevelt specialists, respected scholars, and a new generation of historians
- A new and fresh historiographical exploration of Roosevelt’s life and ideas, political career and achievements, and his legacies
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781444344219 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 08/26/2011 |
Series: | Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History , #79 |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 612 |
File size: | 1 MB |
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Table of Contents
List of Figures xNotes on Contributors xi
Introduction: An All-Time Historian’s Favorite 1Serge Ricard
1. The Education of Theodore Roosevelt 8Michael L. Collins
2. Theodore Roosevelt’s Early Political Career: The Making of an Independent Republican and Urban Progressive 27Edward P. Kohn
3. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Spanish-American War Hero 45Joseph Smith
4. The Rough Rider as Super-Politician: Theodore Roosevelt’s Ascendancy on the National Political Stage 59Steven Doherty
5. Preparedness and Defense: The Origins of Theodore Roosevelt’s Strategy for the United States on the International Stage 78J. Simon Rofe
6. Roosevelt’s Republic 94Joshua D. Hawley
7. Sex and Gender in Roosevelt’s America 112Andrew M. Johnston
8. “A Serious Art and Literature of Our Own”: Exploring Theodore Roosevelt’s Art World 135Stephen L. Levine
9. Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential Power and the Regulation of the Market 154Gary Murphy
10. The Quality of Theodore Roosevelt’s Environmentalism 173Ethan Fishman
11. Theodore Roosevelt and the Indians 186Roger L. Nichols
12. “Half a Southerner”: President Roosevelt, African Americans and the South 198Adam D. Burns
13. Theodore Roosevelt and the Press 216John M. Thompson
14. Theodore Roosevelt and the Joys of Family Life 237Jon L. Brudvig
15. The Global Strategist: The Navy as the Nation’s Big Stick 257Carl Cavanagh Hodge
16. Theodore Roosevelt, the Panama Canal, and the Roosevelt Corollary: Sphere of Influence Diplomacy 274Stephen G. Rabe
17. Theodore Roosevelt and Canada: Alaska, the “Big Stick” and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1901–1909 293Tony McCulloch
18. Anglo-American Partnership: The Foundation of Theodore Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy 314William N. Tilchin
19. Theodore Roosevelt and the “Special Relationship” with France 329David G. Haglund
20. America’s First Intervention in European Politics: Theodore Roosevelt and the European Crisis of 1905–1906 350Douglas Eden
21. The End of an Era: Theodore Roosevelt and the Treaty of Portsmouth 368Eugene P. Trani and Donald E. Davis
22. Japanese-American Relations: The 1906 California Crisis, the Gentlemen’s Agreement, and the World Cruise 391David S. Patterson
23. “Uplifting the Barbarian” 417Carol C. Chin
24. Roosevelt in Africa 435Patricia O’Toole
25. The New Nationalism and Progressive Issues: The Break with Taft and the 1912 Campaign 452Claire Delahaye
26. The Great War, Americanism Revisited, and the Anti-Wilson Crusade 468Lloyd E. Ambrosius
27. Theodore Roosevelt’s Contradictory Legacies: From Imperialist Nationalism to Advocacy of a Progressive Welfare State 485Kathleen M. Dalton
28. The Memory of Theodore Roosevelt through Motion Pictures 502M. Patrick Cullinane
Conclusion: A Rooseveltian Century? 521Serge Ricard
Bibliography 528
Index 561
What People are Saying About This
“An impressive collection of essays that provides up-to-date information on how historians have studied and interpreted the manifold aspects of Theodore Roosevelt’s life and career. The twentieth century may, or may not, have been ‘a Rooseveltian century,’ as the editor suggests, but it is clear from these essays that Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. leader who tried to understand and respond systematically to an increasingly diversified world, politically, socially, and culturally.” – Akira Iriye, Harvard University “Theodore Roosevelt occupies an iconic position in American history. Serge Ricard has assembled a distinguished international group of scholars who provide an insightful, comprehensive, and accessible view of TR the person, the political leader, and president.” – George Edwards, George and Julia Blucher Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies, Texas A&M University “Serge Ricard’s splendid Companion to Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most comprehensive assessments of the personality and policies of this complex American chief executive to appear in print. The international group of contributors and the stunning breadth of its coverage should appeal to the specialist in American history as well as to the general reader.” – William R. Keylor, Boston University, author of The Twentieth Century and Beyond: An International History since 1900