Anglo-Saxonism in US Foreign Policy

The volume opens whith Göran Rystad's analysis of the public debate that prededed the Supreme Court's decision in the famous Insular Cases. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones for his part argues that organized labor helped change Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's mind on imperialism, that the economic welfare of the workers in his state counted for much in his political calculations. DuBois's discordant voice erupts in the midst of the white Anglo-Saxon imperialist consensus with Hélène Christol's assessment of the black militant's theorizing on race relations and colonialism. Serge Ricard examines the troubled German-American "friendship" of the early 20th century and offers a new interpretation of the 1902-1903 Venezuelan affair which questions the commonly accepted chronology of Theodore Roosevelt's subdued confrontation with Willliam II and proposes a different scenario for what turned out to be a two and half month's crisis. Daniela Rossini tackles the complex issue of Anglo-American collaboration in negotiating the Versailles treaty and studies in depth George Louis Beer's influential role in drawing up the postwar colonial settlements as a historian of the of the British Empire and a leading expert of colonial matters both within the "Inquiry" and within the American delegation at the Paris Peace Conference.