Isolation In Promise And Peril

In Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of Global Age, Christopher McKnight Nichols challenged traditional historiography regarding the emergence of isolationism in the United States which argues that the era after World War I provided the catalyst for Americans to question global interaction, especially militarily. However, the author positions the concept of isolationism within its proper framework; advocates of isolation did not desire complete withdrawal from the rest of the world but instead supported, to varying degrees, economic, political, and cultural interactions with other nations. Isolationism is defined as the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances,