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The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

Volume 1: The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776–1865
Bradford Perkins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 1995
1. The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776–1865
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    The Creation of a Republican Empire traces American foreign relations from the colonial era to the end of the Civil War, paying particular attention not only to the diplomatic controversies of the era but also to the origins and development of American thought regarding international relations. The primary purpose of the book is to describe and explain, in the diplomatic context, the process by which the United States was born, transformed into a republican nation, and extended into a continental empire. Central to the story are the events surrounding the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, the impact on the United States of the European wars touched off by the French Revolution, the Monroe Doctrine, the expansionism of the 1840s, and the ordeal of the Civil War.

    • Author well-known
    • Subject is of considerable interest to a general audience

    Reviews & endorsements

    "These books can be read together, or, thanks to fairly broad and overlapping introductory chapters, they can be read as discrete volumes. They will certainly make an impact on the profession." Canadian Journal of History

    "The Creation of a Republican Empire is skilled and absorbing diplomatic history by a scholar who masterfully combines expertise with readability." Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., City University of New York

    "The Creation of a Republican Empire is skilled and absorbing diplomatic history by a scholar who masterfully combines expertise with readability." Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., City University of New York

    "These books can be read together, or, thanks to fairly broad and overlapping introductory chapters, they can be read as discrete volumes. They will certainly make an impact on the profession." Canadian Journal of History

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    Product details

    March 1995
    Paperback
    9780521483841
    272 pages
    228 × 152 × 18 mm
    0.442kg
    2 maps
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Part I. The Canvas and the Prism
    • Part II. The Birth of American Diplomacy
    • Part III. The Constitution
    • Part IV. Federalist Diplomacy: Realism and Anglophilia
    • Part V. Jefferson and Madison: the Diplomacy of Fear and Hope
    • Part VI. To the Monroe Doctrine
    • Part VII. Manifest Destiny
    • Part VIII. Britain, Canada and the United States
    • Part IX. The Republican Empire
    • Bibliographical Note.
      Author
    • Bradford Perkins , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor