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Record Nr.

UNINA9910208841203321

Titolo

A companion to Theodore Roosevelt [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Serge Ricard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

ISBN

1-4443-4423-4

1-4443-4420-X

1-118-38782-1

9786613258335

1-78268-720-3

1-283-25833-1

1-4443-4421-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (575 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to American history

American presidents

Altri autori (Persone)

RicardSerge

Disciplina

973.91/1092

B

Soggetti

Presidents - United States

United States Politics and government 1901-1909

United States Politics and government 1909-1913

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- INTRODUCTION: AN ALL-TIME HISTORIAN'S FAVORITE -- Chapter One: THE EDUCATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT -- Chapter Two: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EARLY POLITICAL CAREER: THE MAKING OF AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN AND URBAN PROGRESSIVE -- Chapter Three: THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR HERO -- Assistant Secretary of the Navy -- The Rough Rider -- Las Guasimas -- San Juan Hill -- The Round Robin -- The War Hero -- Chapter Four: THE ROUGH RIDER AS SUPER-POLITICIAN: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ASCENDANCY ON THE NATIONAL POLITICAL STAGE -- Introduction -- Boss Platt and the Limits of Governance in Nineteenth-



Century Politics -- The First "Super-Politician" -- The Roosevelt Governorship 1899-1901 -- Battles Won -- The Path to the Vice-Presidency -- Conclusions -- Chapter Five: PREPAREDNESS AND DEFENSE: THE ORIGINS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S STRATEGY FOR THE UNITED STATES ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE -- The 1880s: The Naval War of 1812 -- Captain Mahan and TR -- Washington's Forgotten Maxim, Naval War College, June 1897 -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: ROOSEVELT'S REPUBLIC -- Chapter Seven: SEX AND GENDER IN ROOSEVELT'S AMERICA -- Chapter Eight: "A SERIOUS ART AND LITERATURE OF OUR OWN": EXPLORING THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ART WORLD -- Chapter Nine: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND THE REGULATION OF THE MARKET -- Acting in the Public Interest -- The Trustbuster -- Regulating the Railroads -- Presidential Power and the Common Law -- Federal Regulation and the Idea of a Just Society -- Chapter Ten: THE QUALITY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ENVIRONMENTALISM -- Introduction -- Preservationism and Conservationism -- Prudence -- Roosevelt's Environmental Policies -- Roosevelt's Prudence -- Conclusion.

Chapter Eleven: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE INDIANS -- Introduction -- Indians and Savagery -- Bases for Ideas -- Political Career -- Imperialism -- Chapter Twelve: "HALF A SOUTHERNER": PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE SOUTH -- Mixed Tidings -- Theories of Race -- The Exceptional Few -- Justice for Some -- A Southern Strategy -- Chapter Thirteen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE PRESS -- Chapter Fourteen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE JOYS OF FAMILY LIFE -- "Teedie's" First Family -- The Joys (and Sorrows) of Family Life -- War, Separation, and Public Service -- Life with Father -- The Children's White House Adventures -- Fatherly Advice to Older Children -- Life after the Presidency -- "Everybody Works but Father!" -- Chapter Fifteen: THE GLOBAL STRATEGIST: THE NAVY AS THE NATION'S BIG STICK -- American Sea Power -- Navalism and National Strategy -- The Naval War with Spain -- Imperial President -- The Big Stick -- Conclusion -- Chapter Sixteen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, THE PANAMA CANAL, AND THE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY: SPHERE OF INFLUENCE DIPLOMACY -- "The Most Important Action" -- "The Center of the Universe" -- "Its Fiat Is Law" -- "Those Contemptible Little Creatures" -- "To Cease Stamping Out the Fuses" -- "Keen-eyed French Duelist" -- "A Mandate from Civilization" -- "International Police Power" -- Chapter Seventeen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND CANADA: ALASKA, THE "BIG STICK" AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC TRIANGLE, 1901-1909 -- The Alaska Debate -- The Origins of the Alaska Dispute -- The Purchase of Alaska, 1867 -- Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush, 1897 -- The Advent of Roosevelt, September 1901 -- The Alaska Boundary Tribunal, 1903 -- Was Canada "Big Sticked"? -- Cleaning the Slate, 1905-1909 -- The North Atlantic Triangle -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eighteen: ANGLO-AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP: THE FOUNDATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S FOREIGN POLICY.

Theodore Roosevelt's World View -- The Rooseveltian Touch -- A Special Relationship in the Making -- Confirming the New Partnership -- Damage-Control Diplomacy -- An Anglo-American Binationalist -- Extolling the British Empire -- Conclusion -- Chapter Nineteen: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" WITH FRANCE -- Introduction: The Ironies of the Missing Street -- What Franco-American "Special Relationship"? -- America, France, and the Global Balance of Power -- Roosevelt as "Friend of France" -- Conclusion -- Chapter Twenty: AMERICA'S FIRST INTERVENTION IN EUROPEAN POLITICS: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE EUROPEAN



CRISIS OF 1905-1906 -- Chapter Twenty-One: THE END OF AN ERA: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH -- Reevaluating the Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- Theodore Roosevelt's "Modest Proposals" -- Wielding the Big Stick -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War -- The Rooseveltian Legacy -- Chapter Twenty-Two: JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS: THE 1906 CALIFORNIA CRISIS, THE GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT, AND THE WORLD CRUISE -- Domestic Determinants -- Roosevelt's Predicament -- The President's Two-Pronged Response to the Crisis -- Diplomacy and Deterrence -- Conclusion -- Chapter Twenty-Three: "UPLIFTING THE BARBARIAN" -- Roosevelt, Imperialism, and Race -- Civilization and Self-Improvement -- Civilization and Uplift in Practice -- India, Africa, and the Middle East -- Civilization, Modernization, and the American Way -- Conclusion -- Chapter Twenty-Four: ROOSEVELT IN AFRICA -- Chapter Twenty-Five: THE NEW NATIONALISM AND PROGRESSIVE ISSUES: THE BREAK WITH TAFT AND THE 1912 CAMPAIGN -- An Active and Popular Ex-President -- A Growing Rift with Taft -- By Popular Demand?: TR's Entry into the Race -- By Popular Demand: The Primary Campaign -- Eventful Conventions -- An Energetic and Intense Bull Moose Campaign -- An Extraordinary Campaign.

Chapter Twenty-Six: THE GREAT WAR, AMERICANISM REVISITED, AND THE ANTI-WILSON CRUSADE -- Chapter Twenty-Seven: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S CONTRADICTORY LEGACIES: FROM IMPERIALIST NATIONALISM TO ADVOCACY OF A PROGRESSIVE WELFARE STATE -- The Common Roots of TR's Imperialism and His Commitment to a Modern Welfare State -- President Roosevelt's Attempts to Build a Stronger State at Home and Abroad -- TR and the Pressure to Keep Up with International Reform -- TR the Retrenching Imperialist Becomes TR the Defender of an American Welfare State -- The Gradual Moderation of TR's Imperialism Coincided with his Increasing Progressivism -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: THE MEMORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT THROUGH MOTION PICTURES -- Silent Films, Shorts, and World War II -- Television, Blockbusters, and the Cold War -- Documentaries and the Trends of a New Century -- Conclusion -- CONCLUSION: A ROOSEVELTIAN CENTURY? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.