American Foreign Relations A History, Volume 1: To 1920

by Paterson, Thomas; Clifford, J. Garry; Maddock, Shane J.; Kisatsky, Deborah; Hagan, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780618370719
• ISBN10: 0618370714
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-26
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This best-selling text presents the best synthesis of current scholarship available to emphasize the theme of expansionism and its manifestations. The inclusion of recently declassified documents allows for new perspectives on American intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution, the origins of the Cold War and the Korean War, and the Cuban missile crisis. The Sixth Edition includes strong coverage of gender and culture and explores the racial dimensions of American expansionist ideology. Up-to-date coverage of national security and its implications allows students to examine the government's role in protecting citizens.

Table of Contents

Note: Each chapter includes

Further Reading and Notes

Embryo of Empire: Americans and the World Before 1789

Diplomatic Crossroad: Jay, Franklin, Adams, and Negotiations for Independence, 1782

Reaching for Independence: Ideology and Commercial Power

Opportunity and Necessity: Alliance with France

Suspicious Suitors in Europe

A Separate Peace: The Treaty of Paris

Diplomatic Frustrations Under the Articles of Confederation

The New Constitution and the Legacy of the Founding Generation

Independence, Expansion, and War, 1789–1815

Diplomatic Crossroad: The Chesapeake Affair, 1807

The French Revolution and American Debates Commerce, Politics, and Diplomacy: Jay's

Treaty Pinckney's Treaty, France, and Washington's Farewell

The XYZ Affair and the Quasi-War with France Napoleon's

Ambition and Jefferson's

Imperial Vision: The Louisiana Purchase

European Madhouse: Blockades, Neutral Trade, and Impressment, 1803–1807

"Peaceable Coercion" and the Path to the War of 1812

In All the Tenses: Why War Came Wartime

Diplomacy and the Peace of Ghent

The Legacy of an Unwon War

Extending and Preserving the Sphere, 1815–1848

Diplomatic Crossroad: Mexican-American War on the Rio Grande, 1846

Expanding the Sphere: Manifest Destiny

Commercial Ambitions in the Pacific

John Quincy Adams, the Floridas, and the Transcontinental Treaty

The Monroe Doctrine Targets

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Trade, Canada, and Other Anglo-American Intersections

Contest over the Oregon Country

The Texas Revolution and Annexation

The War with Mexico and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Lessons and Costs of Expansion, 1815–1848

Expansionism, Sectionalism, and Civil War, 1848–1865

Diplomatic Crossroad: William Walker and Filibustering in Central America, 1855–1860

Sectionalism and Sputtering Expansionism

The South's Dream of Empire

The Cuba-United States Nexus

Openings to East Asia

Anglo-American Deacute;tente, an Isthmian Canal, and Central America

The American Civil War and International Relations

British "Lookers On" Across the Atlantic War as Catalyst

Global Rivalry and Regional Power, 1865–1895

Diplomatic Crossroad: The Foiled Grab of the Dominican Republic, 1869–1870

The Culture of Expansionism and Imperialism

Economic Expansion and International Rivalry

Toward Command of the Seas: The New Navy Secretary William H. Seward

Eyes the Future Great Britain, Canada, and North American

Disputes Americans in Asia: China, Japan, and Korea

Pacific Prizes: Hawai'i and Samoa Eyeing Africa

Latin America Moves into the Yankee Vortex

Imperialist Leap, 1895–1900

Diplomatic Crossroad: The Maine, McKinley, and War, 1898

The Venezuela Crisis of 1895

Men of Empire Cleveland and McKinley Confront Cuba Libre, 1895–1898

The Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War

Peace and Empire: The Debate in the United States

Imperial Collisions in Asia: The Philippine

Insurrection and the Open Door in China

The Elbows of a World Power, 1895–1900

Managing, Policing, and Extending the Empire, 1900–1914

Diplomatic Crossroad: Severing Panama from Colombia for the Canal, 1903

The Conservative Shapers of Empire Cuba's

Limited Independence Under the Platt Amendment

The Constable of the Caribbean: The Roosevelt Corollary, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic

The Quest for Order in Haiti and Nicaragua

The Mexican Revolution Threatens U.S. Interests Japan, China, and Dollar

Diplomacy in Asia Anglo-American Rapprochement and Empire-Building

War, Peace, and Revolution in the Time of Wilson, 1914–1920

Diplomatic Crossroad: The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915

The Travails of Neutrality Submarines, Neutral Rights, and Mediation Efforts

Wilson Leads America into World War

The Debate over Preparedness

The Doughboys Make the Difference in Europe

Wilson Imagines a Better Future: The Fourteen Points and the Peace

Conference Principle, Personality, Health, and Partinsanship: The League Fight Red Scare Abroad: Bolshevism and Intervention in Russia

The Whispering Gallery of Global Disorder

Appendix: Makers of American

Foreign Relations

Imperialist Leap, 1895–1900

Diplomatic Crossroad: The Maine, McKinley, and War, 1898

The Venezuelan Crisis of 1895

Men of Empire Cleveland and McKinley Confront Cuba Libre, 1895–1898

The Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War

Peace and Empire: The Debate in the United States

Imperial Collisions in Asia: The Philippine

Insurrection and the Open Door in China

The Elbows of a World Power, 1895–1900

Managing, Policing, and Extending the Empire, 1900–1914

Diplomatic Crossroad: Severing Panama from Colombia for the Canal, 1903

The Conservative Shapers of Empire

Cuba's Limited Independence

Under the Platt Amendment

The Constable of the Caribbean: The Roosevelt Corollary, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic

The Quest for Order in Haiti and Nicaragua

The Mexican Revolution Threatens

U.S. Interests Japan, China, and Dollar

Diplomacy in Asia

Anglo-American Rapprochement and Empire-Building

War, Peace, and Revolution in the Time of Wilson, 1914–1920

Diplomatic Crossroad: The Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915

The Travails of Neutrality Submarines, Neutral Rights, and Mediation Efforts

Wilson Leads America into World War

The Debate over Preparedness

The Doughboys Make the Difference in Europe

Wilson Imagines a Better Future: The Fourteen Points and the Peace

Conference Principle, Personality, Health, and Partinsanship: The League

Fight Red Scare Abroad: Bolshevism and Intervention in Russia

The Whispering Gallery of Global Disorder

Descending into Europe's Maelstrom, 1920–1939

Diplomatic Crossroad: Roosevelt's

Attempt to Extend America's

Frontier to the Rhine, 1939

"Prize Fighters with a Very Long Reach": The Independent Internationalists Economic and Cultural Expansion in a Rickety World

Peace Seekers for a World Without War

Cold as Steel: Soviet-American Encounters

Hitler's Germany, Appeasement, and the Outbreak of War

American Isolationism and the Neutrality Acts

Roosevelt Shifts and Congress Balks on the Eve of War

Asia, Latin America, and the Vagaries of Power, 1920–1939

Diplomatic Crossroad: The Manchurian Crisis, 1931–1932

A Question of Power Facing Japan: The Washington Naval Disarmament

Conference and China Japan's

Footsteps Toward a New Pacific Order

Making and Managing Good Neighbors in Latin America

Creating Dictators in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Haiti Subverting

Nationalism in Cuba and Puerto Rico Compromising with Mexico: Oil and Nationalism

Pan Americanism and the Approach of the Second World War

Survival and Spheres: The Allies and the Second World War, 1939–1945

Diplomatic Crossroad: The Atlantic Charter Conference

Juggling Between War and Peace, 1939–1941

Asian Collision Course: Japanese-American Relations, 1939–1941

The Big Three: Strategies and Fissures, 1941–1943

In Search of a China Policy Bystanders to the Holocaust: Americans and the Murder of the Jews

Planning the Postwar Peace, 1943–1945

Compromises at the Yalta Conference

To Each Its Own: Allied Divergence and Spheres of Inf

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