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In attacking the ideology of anti-communism as part of a larger status-quo policy, Williams' Tragedy constructed an over-arching theory for American foreign policy since the 1890's. "Open-door expansion" was its unifying theme. Far from claiming direct links between U.S. economic interests and political policy as...
So strong was the illusion of salvation through expansion that any threat to open-door access to new markets was defined as a threat, not only to American interests, but to human freedom in general. Thus, at the close of Wolrd War II, the United States consciously led in the...
Conscious of the dangers inherent in such an effort to seek economic well-being outside our borders Charles Austin Beard in The Open Door at Home (1934) attacked the open door policy. He advocated an entirely new, non-expansionist economic and political orientation in order to achieve two crucial objectives...
WILLIAMS on several occasions acknowledged his respect for Beard, most explicitly in his Contours of American History (1961), where he wrote, "that the Pulitzer Prize Committee has yet to find either the intelligence or the courage to honor him even posthumously is one of the most illuminating aspects of our...
Significantly, however, in his writings on foreign policy Beard was never credited with demolishing the open-door illusion. Williams does not mention him in the remarkable preface to The Roots of the Modern American Empire, which chronicles the growth of this fascinating theory of American imperialism. Extensive research shows that...