Episode 116 - Conflicted Colossus

It's overview time once again and today I introduce the United States. It's main contribution to the failures of peace in the interwar period stem from its refusal to get entangled in European affairs. Which was a reluctance that had to do with internal conditions within the nation, and will be the focus of the first part of this series.    Bibliography for this episode:    LaFeber, Walter The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations Volume II: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 Cambridge University Press 1993 Iriye, Akira The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations Volume III: The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945 Cambridge University Press 1993 Engerman, Stanley L. and Robert E. Gallman The Cambridge Economic History of the United States Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century Cambridge University Press 2000 Engerman, Stanley L. and Robert E. Gallman The Cambridge Economic History of the United States Volume III: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 2000 Miller, Nathan New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America Da Capo Press 2003 Schlesinger Jr, Arthur M The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-1933 First Mariner Books 1957   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]