Serge Ricard is Professor Emeritus of American Studies and U.S. History at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III), France. He has published extensively in both French and English on Theodore Roosevelt, American expansionism, U.S. foreign policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and Mexican-American culture. His publications include Théodore Roosevelt: principes et pratique d’une politique étrangère (1991), The Mass Media in America: An Overview (1998), and The “Manifest Destiny” of the United States in the 19th Century: Ideological and Political Aspects (1999).

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• List of Figures xNotes on Contributors xiIntroduction: An All-Time Historian’s Favorite 1Serge Ricard1. The Education of Theodore Roosevelt 8Michael L. Collins2. Theodore Roosevelt’s Early Political Career: The Making of an Independent Republican and Urban Progressive 27Edward P. Kohn3. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Spanish-American War Hero 45Joseph Smith4. The Rough Rider as Super-Politician: Theodore Roosevelt’s Ascendancy on the National Political Stage 59Steven Doherty5. Preparedness and Defense: The Origins of Theodore Roosevelt’s Strategy for the United States on the International Stage 78J. Simon Rofe6. Roosevelt’s Republic 94Joshua D. Hawley7. Sex and Gender in Roosevelt’s America 112Andrew M. Johnston8. “A Serious Art and Literature of Our Own”: Exploring Theodore Roosevelt’s Art World 135Stephen L. Levine9. Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential Power and the Regulation of the Market 154Gary Murphy10. The Quality of Theodore Roosevelt’s Environmentalism 173Ethan Fishman11. Theodore Roosevelt and the Indians 186Roger L. Nichols12. “Half a Southerner”: President Roosevelt, African Americans and the South 198Adam D. Burns13. Theodore Roosevelt and the Press 216John M. Thompson14. Theodore Roosevelt and the Joys of Family Life 237Jon L. Brudvig15. The Global Strategist: The Navy as the Nation’s Big Stick 257Carl Cavanagh Hodge16. Theodore Roosevelt, the Panama Canal, and the Roosevelt Corollary: Sphere of Influence Diplomacy 274Stephen G. Rabe17. Theodore Roosevelt and Canada: Alaska, the “Big Stick” and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1901–1909 293Tony McCulloch18. Anglo-American Partnership: The Foundation of Theodore Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy 314William N. Tilchin19. Theodore Roosevelt and the “Special Relationship” with France 329David G. Haglund20. America’s First Intervention in European Politics: Theodore Roosevelt and the European Crisis of 1905–1906 350Douglas Eden21. The End of an Era: Theodore Roosevelt and the Treaty of Portsmouth 368Eugene P. Trani and Donald E. Davis22. Japanese-American Relations: The 1906 California Crisis, the Gentlemen’s Agreement, and the World Cruise 391David S. Patterson23. “Uplifting the Barbarian” 417Carol C. Chin24. Roosevelt in Africa 435Patricia O’Toole25. The New Nationalism and Progressive Issues: The Break with Taft and the 1912 Campaign 452Claire Delahaye26. The Great War, Americanism Revisited, and the Anti-Wilson Crusade 468Lloyd E. Ambrosius27. Theodore Roosevelt’s Contradictory Legacies: From Imperialist Nationalism to Advocacy of a Progressive Welfare State 485Kathleen M. Dalton28. The Memory of Theodore Roosevelt through Motion Pictures 502M. Patrick CullinaneConclusion: A Rooseveltian Century? 521Serge RicardBibliography 528Index 561