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Author Hendrickson, David C.

Title Union, nation, or empire : the American debate over international relations, 1789-1941 / David C. Hendrickson.

Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2009.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  327.73 H385u 2009    ---  Available
Description xvi, 478 p. ; 25 cm.
Series American political thought
American political thought.
Contents The problem and its modes -- American internationalism -- Imperialism and nationalism -- The rival systems of Hamilton and Jefferson -- The causes of war -- Louisiana! -- Balances of power -- The confederation of Europe -- New world and old world -- To the Panama Congress -- Into the deep freeze -- Great and fearfully growing -- The title page -- Constitutional disorder -- Decentralizing tendencies -- The hope of the world -- Reds and whites -- The removal of the Cherokee -- Annexation of Texas and war with Mexico -- The great debate of 1848 -- Intervention for nonintervention: the Kossuth tour -- Invitation to a beheading -- Causes of the war, causes of the peace -- D.I.V.O.R.C.E -- The tragedy of Civil War -- The new nation -- A new birth of freedom? -- "Free security" and "imperial understretch" -- A world of its own -- The unionist paradigm revisited -- The new nationalism and the Spanish War -- Imperialism and the conquest of the Philippines -- Informal empire and the protection of nationals -- Seward and the new imperialism -- Before the deluge -- "Great utterance" and Madisonian moment -- Safe for democracy -- The liberal peace program goes to Paris -- The great debate of 1919 -- Nationalism, internationalism, and imperialism in the 1920s -- The great depression and economic nationalism -- Isolation and neutrality -- The final reckoning.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-384) and index.
Subject United States -- Foreign relations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.
International relations -- Philosophy.
ISBN 0700616322 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700616329 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. BWX R0770648
CDX 9041815

 
    
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