Title: Safe for democracy :
Authors: Gardner, Lloyd C.,
Date: 1984
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xii, 383 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: "This groundbreaking book probes the ways in which two capitalist superpowers, Great Britain and the United States, reacted to the momentous challenge of revolution that emerged during the early years of this century. The revolutions that inflamed Mexico in 1910, China in 1911, and Russia in 1917 all occurred within the same period of upheaval that culminated in the Great War in Europe. Yet no previous study has treated these revolutions under one cover or assessed their collective impact on the Western democracies with such precision and insight."--Jacket.
Contents: pt. I, The failure of imperialism: -- What comes of empire -- The American answer -- Intervention in Mexico -- Upheaval in China; -- pt. II, War into revolution: -- Exploding Germany -- The Russian glacier -- Ideological front lines -- Visions in a clouded prism -- The outskirts of Paris: Mexico and China; -- pt. III, A world made safe: -- Wilson and Lloyd George in Paris -- At arm's length and beyond -- The shape of things to come -- The Washington contract -- Hard road to a stalemate.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Great Britain--Foreign relations--1910-1936.; Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.; Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945.; United States--Foreign relations--1913-1921.; United States--Foreign relations--1921-1923.; United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.; World War, 1914-1918--Diplomatic history