To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order / Edition 1

by Thomas Knock

Overview

In his widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson's epic quest for a new world order. The account follows Wilson's thought and diplomacy from his policy toward revolutionary Mexico, through his dramatic call for "Peace without Victory" in World War I, to the Senate's rejection of the League of Nations. Throughout Knock explores the place of internationalism in American politics, sweeping away the old view that isolationism was the cause of Wilson's failure and revealing the role of competing visions of internationalism—conservative and progressive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691001500
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	06/15/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thomas J. Knock is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University.

Table of Contents

Preface

1 A Political Autobiography 3

2 Wilson and the Age of Socialist Inquiry 15

3 Searching for a New Diplomacy 31

4 The Political Origins of Progressive and Conservative Internationalism 48

5 The Turning Point 70

6 Raising a New Flag: The League and the Coalition of 1916 85

7 "All the Texts of the Rights of Man": Manifestoes for Peace and War 105

8 "If the War Is Too Strong": The Travail of Progressive Internationalism and the Fourteen Points 123

9 Waiting for Wilson: The Wages of Delay and Repression 148

10 "The War Thus Comes to an End" 167

11 The Stern Covenanter 194

12 "A Practical Document and a Humane Document" 210

13 "The Thing Reaches the Depths of Tragedy" 227

14 Wilson's Fate 246

Epilogue, Echoes from Pueblo 271

Abbreviations 277

Notes 279

Bibliography 341

Index 359

What People are Saying About This

A superb, sympathetic account of the intellectual and political milieu surrounding Wilson's League of Nations.

Paterson

A superb, sympathetic account of the intellectual and political milieu surrounding Wilson's League of Nations.
— Thomas G. Paterson, author of "American Foreign Policy: A History"

Senator George McGovern

A truly great book. It is simply superb in every way.

Patrick Moynihan

Wilson, in his time and through his vocation, transformed the standard of legitimacy in government throughout the world. We are perhaps only beginning to see this and, with the help of Thomas Knock's important work, better understand it.
— Senator Patrick Moynihan, author of "On the Law of Nations"

Editorial Reviews

"[This book] challenges virtually every recent historian who has tackled the subject. Knock demands that we see Wilson in a genuinely new framework and succeeds admirably."—-Gary J. Ostrower, The American Historical Review


"Now that humanity is possibly drawing closer to ... [a] 'Federation of the World,' To End All Wars is an enlightening and valuable introduction to the birth of that noble vision."—-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Times Literary Supplement


"Wilson, in his time and through his vocation, transformed the standard of legitimacy in government throughout the world. We are perhaps only beginning to see this and, with the help of Thomas Knock's important work, better understand it."—Senator Patrick Moynihan, author of On the Law of Nations


"A truly great book. It is simply superb in every way."—Senator George McGovern


"A superb, sympathetic account of the intellectual and political milieu surrounding Wilson's League of Nations."—Thomas G. Paterson, author of American Foreign Policy: A History

From the Publisher

Now that humanity is possibly drawing closer to ... [a] 'Federation of the World,' To End All Wars is an enlightening and valuable introduction to the birth of that noble vision.

The Times Literary Supplement - Arthur Schlesinger

Now that humanity is possibly drawing closer to ... [a] 'Federation of the World,' To End All Wars is an enlightening and valuable introduction to the birth of that noble vision.
— Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The Times Literary Supplement

[This book] challenges virtually every recent historian who has tackled the subject. Knock demands that we see Wilson in a genuinely new framework and succeeds admirably.
— Gary J. Ostrower

The American Historical Review

[This book] challenges virtually every recent historian who has tackled the subject. Knock demands that we see Wilson in a genuinely new framework and succeeds admirably.

The American Historical Review - Gary J. Ostrower