Theodore Marburg was an American internationalist and supporter of Social Darwinism. Born in 1862 in Baltimore, Maryland, Marburg spoke out in favor of American imperialism and of creating an Anglo-American alliance. From 1900 to 1914, Marburg applied his Social Darwinist beliefs, and joined the arbitration movement for an international court system controlled by the "superior" nations. By the First World War, however, Marburg reexamined his beliefs and realized that world peace would not be maintained through legal measures if military and economic enforcement was not also established. Through the creation of the League to Enforce Peace, an American internationalist society, Marburg and other Americans worked to guarantee the United States a leadership position through the creation of the League of Nations. When these attempts failed, Marburg continued to write about U.S. foreign policy and lived to see America survive a Second World War and become an active partner in the United Nations. / Theodore Marburg was a product of the upper-class and of the intellectual movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Marburg was a progressive and an internationalist, but as this dissertation will illustrate, Americans with similar backgrounds used these movements to advocate a foreign leadership role for the United States based more on racism than on altruism. The life of Theodore Marburg and his place in history proved that racism, especially the emphasis on Social Darwinism and Anglo-Saxon theory, was an important foundation in establishing the modern foreign policy of the United States. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-10, Section: A, page: 4115. / Major Professor: Valerie Conner. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77568 |
| Contributors | Duke, Nancy Jean., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 345 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
Page generated in 0.0025 seconds