To End All Wars, New Edition

Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

Thomas J. Knock

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780691191614
• eBook ISBN: 9780691191928
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

A close look at Woodrow Wilson's political thought and international diplomacy

In the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson's epic quest for a new world order. This book follows Wilson's thought and diplomacy from his policy toward revolutionary Mexico, through his dramatic call for "Peace without Victory" in World War I, to the Senate's rejection of the League of Nations. Throughout, Knock reinterprets the origins of internationalism in American politics, sweeping away the view that isolationism was the cause of Wilson's failure and revealing the role of competing visions of internationalism—conservative and progressive.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface to New Edition
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Acknowledgments for the New Edition
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• 1. A Political Autobiography
• 2. Wilson and the Age of Socialist Inquiry
• 3. Searching for a New Diplomacy
• 4. The Political Origins of Progressive and Conservative Internationalism
• 5. The Turning Point
• 6. Raising a New Flag: The League and the Coalition of 1916
• 7. “All the Texts of the Rights of Man”: Manifestoes for Peace and War
• 8. “If the War Is Too Strong”: The Travail of Progressive Internationalism and the Fourteen Points
• 9. Waiting for Wilson: The Wages of Delay and Repression
• 10. “The War Thus Comes to an End”
• 11. The Stern Covenanter
• 12. “A Practical Document and a Humane Document”
• 13. “The Thing Reaches the Depths of Tragedy”
• 14. Wilson’s Fate
• Epilogue, Echoes from Pueblo
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index