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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendrickson, David C.

Series:

American political thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--Philosophy.

Philosophy.

International relations--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 478 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2009]

Contents:

Part One Introduction

1 The Problem and Its Modes 3

2 American Internationalism 6

3 Imperialism and Nationalism 13

Part Two The Age of Revolution and War

4 The Rival Systems of Hamilton and Jefferson 25

5 The Causes of War 35

6 Louisiana! 47

7 Balances of Power 54

Part Three A Range for Federative Systems

8 The Confederation of Europe 69

9 New World and Old World 78

10 To the Panama Congress 94

11 Into the Deep Freeze 104

Part Four The Travails of the Union

12 Great and Fearfully Growing 111

13 The Title Page 118

14 Constitutional Disorder 124

15 Decentralizing Tendencies 132

16 The Hope of the World 140

Part Five Empire and its Discontents

17 Reds and Whites 147

18 The Removal of the Cherokee 157

19 Annexation of Texas and War with Mexico 165

20 The Great Debate of 1848 173

21 Intervention for Nonintervention: The Kossuth Tour 185

Part Six Into the Maelstrom

22 Invitation to a Beheading 195

23 Causes of the War, Causes of the Peace 201

24 D.I.V.O.R.C.E. 212

25 The Tragedy of Civil War 222

Part Seven "At Last We Are A Nation"

26 The New Nation 229

27 A New Birth of Freedom? 235

28 "Free Security" and "Imperial Understretch" 242

29 A World of Its Own 249

30 The Unionist Paradigm Revisited 254

Part Eight A Commission from God

31 The New Nationalism and the Spanish War 261

32 Imperialism and the Conquest of the Philippines 266

33 Informal Empire and the Protection of Nationals 277

34 Seward and the New Imperialism 285

Part Nine The New Internationalism Comes and Goes

35 Before the Deluge 293

36 "Great Utterance" and Madisonian Moment 300

37 Safe for Democracy 305

38 The Liberal Peace Program Goes to Paris 313

39 The Great Debate of 1919 323

Part Ten The Crisis of the Old Order

40 Nationalism, Internationalism, and Imperialism in the 1920s 343

41 The Great Depression and Economic Nationalism 349

42 Isolation and Neutrality 353

43 The Final Reckoning 357.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-384) and index.

ISBN:

9780700616329

0700616322

OCLC:

267054076