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RIGHTS HELDAUTHOR Michael Neiberg TITLE Dance of the Furies Europe and the Outbreak of World War I CATEGORY history trade NUMBER OF PAGES 320 36 halftones PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Michael Neiburg was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1969. Educated at the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University, he is now Harold K. John Chair at the US Army War College and Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center of the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author, editor or contributor to a number of books, most recently The Second Battle of the Marne published by Indiana University Press in 2008. BOOK DESCRIPTION Looking beyond diplomats and generals, Neiberg shows that neither nationalist passions nor desires for revenge took Europe to war in 1914. His fresh new perspective will change the way we think about the cataclysm that shaped the twentieth century. This book looks beyond the worlds of diplomacy and military planning to show another side to the outbreak of war in 1914. Historians have focused most of their efforts on the group of maybe two dozen men in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London and St. Petersburg who made the fateful and misguided decisions that tore the continent apart, and in the process, ruined the very monarchical system that led Europe to war in the first place. To date, we have only a limited understanding of what the rest of Europe was thinking, how it was reacting, and how a focus on the ordinary people of Europe might give us new perspective on this crucial event. This book fills that vacuum and in doing so provides some new ways to see the seismic events of that fateful summer. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Christopher Nichols TITLE Promise and Peril America at the Dawn of a Global Age CATEGORY history academic trade NUMBER OF PAGES 326 16 halftones PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Christopher Nichols was born in New York City in 1976. Educated at Harvard, Wesleyan and the University of Virginia, he is now Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in U.S. History at the University of Pennsylvania. This is his first book.BOOK DESCRIPTION Traces the history of isolationist ideas over three decades at the turn of the twentieth century to show how the dawning of a global age required Americans to reconcile the United States’ long tradition of isolation with the reality of its expanding role in the world. George Washington first warned the fledgling United States against the “insidious wiles of foreign influence” and argued that the nation ought to have “as little political connection as possible” with “foreign nations.” These sentiments were echoed by numerous founding political figures, most notably Thomas Jefferson who famously declared that America ought to seek “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” From the nineteenth century through the period after WWI, this is the sort of isolationist thought that most Americans think of when they consider the topic and yet America has never been a truly “isolationist” country. Not all calls for prudence in foreign affairs can be cast in the same light. We must reject thinking in terms of “isolation vs. internationalism.” That simplistic image blinds us to the reality of the far more profound and striking history of these issues in the tumultuous debates over America’s proper place in the world at the dawn of the global age from 1890 to 1940. Promise and Peril tells the little-known story of the rise of modern isolationist thought at the very moment when America was rising to global power. Americans politicians, thinkers, and activists heatedly debated the proper role of the U.S. in the world. The result was a series of intricate blendings of political positions and unexpected coalitions that often embraced certain ideas about isolation while rejecting the conventional wisdom about isolationism in America. These views and positions have been evolving ever since the 1890s as the United States aimed to meet the challenges of multiplying global commerce, power, and interconnectedness. As Nichols reveals, in the historical debates about isolation, the very definition of America as well as the ways in which the nation should interact with the world, has been at stake. He calls for a deeper investigation into the tangled fibers of isolationism and argues that isolation again became “modern” at the turn into the twentieth century, clearly proving that the common characterization of this viewpoint is superficial, fragmentary, historically wrong, in fact. At the time, isolationism emphatically did not entail cultural, economic, or complete political separation from the rest of the world. Although such a separation from the world is the first proposition that comes to mind when discussing those who favored isolationism in the American political and intellectual tradition, this book demonstrates that this conception that must be dismissed. 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