At the 1919 peace conference he aimed at “the collective humbling of all the European powers. WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR HISTORY FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction In the depths of. 421 Fayerweather Hall, Mail Code: MC 2527, United States +1 2. Although later compelled to declare war, Wilson never changed his objective. Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History Director of the European Institute, Department of History. Other nations, he believed, would necessarily shuffle along in an international “chain gang,” possessing the trappings but not the substance of sovereignty. That felicitous combination would at once maintain the peace and perpetuate American advantage. His formulary included industrial pre-eminence, preferential finance, an Open Door policy for trade everywhere, and a backward-looking presumption of white supremacy.

Wilson, he claims, aspired to global hegemony not militarily, as did Wilhelmine Germany, but through the imposition of a capitalist new order.

He considers the president a hyper-nationalist, a hypocrite and a covert imperialist intoxicated by his own rhetoric. Argued with masterly eloquence, Adam Tooze dispels many myths and preconceptions while. Tooze stands unmoved by the conventions of Wilson hagiography still prevalent in the academy. This bold history of the First World War is fluent and persuasive. An Englishman who holds a chair at Yale, Mr.

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