Maps | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
The American Revolution and the Origins of American Diplomacy | |
Early American Foreign Policy: Neutrality and Expansion | |
The Origins of Early American Foreign Policy | |
The Franco-American Alliance: Challenge to Nonentanglement | |
Strains on the Alliance | |
The Treaty of 1783 | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
The Diplomacy of a New Nation: 1783-1800 | |
Foreign Policy under the Articles of Confederation | |
The Constitution and American Foreign Policy | |
The Diplomacy of the Federalist Era | |
John Adams and the Quasi-War of 1798 | |
Expansionism in Early American Diplomacy | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
Republican Diplomacy: The Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812 | |
Louisiana and Florida | |
Jefferson and Great Britain: The Embargo | |
Madison and Great Britain: The War | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
The Diplomacy of Expansion: Florida and the Monroe Doctrine | |
Manifest Destiny | |
The Acquisition of Florida: The Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 | |
The Independence of Latin America | |
The Monroe Doctrine | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
Territorial Expansion: Texas, Oregon, California, and the Mexican War | |
The United States and the Texas Revolution | |
Great Britain and American Expansion | |
The Mexican War | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
The Civil War and Its Diplomatic Aftermath | |
Anglo-American Relations on the Eve of the Civil War | |
The Diplomacy of the Civil War | |
Britain and America in the Aftermath of the Civil War | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
Looking Abroad: Overseas Expansion in Mid-Century | |
William Seward and the Attempted Resumption of American Expansion | |
The Old Diplomacy: Isolationism versus Expansionism | |
Expansion in the Caribbean | |
Expansion in Central and South America | |
Expansion in the Pacific: Hawaii and Samoa | |
Expansion in East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
The Spanish-American War and the Decision for Empire | |
The Imperial Surge, 1895-1917 | |
The Diplomatic Revolution of the 1890s | |
The Venezuelan Boundary Dispute | |
The Anglo-American Rapprochement | |
The Spanish-American War | |
The Acquisition of an Overseas Empire | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
The Surge into Asia: Empire in the Philippines and the Open Door in China | |
The Suppression of the Philippine Revolution | |
The Open Door Notes 156 | |
Theodore Roosevelt, Japan, and the Limits of the Open Door | |
William Howard Taft and Dollar Diplomacy in Asia | |
Woodrow Wilson and Missionary Diplomacy in Asia | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
The Surge into Latin America: Varieties of American Empire | |
The Nature of the U.S. Empire in Latin America | |
Puerto Rico: Governing a Colony | |
Cuba: Shaping a Formal Protectorate | |
The Panama Canal: Acquiring a Formal Enclave in an Informal Colony | |
The Roosevelt Corollary: Staking Out America's Sphere of Influence | |
William Howard Taft and Dollar Diplomacy | |
Woodrow Wilson and Missionary Diplomacy | |
Missionary Diplomacy in Mexico | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
Europe, America, and World War I | |
Germany Disrupts the European Balance of Power | |
The United States and the European Balance of Power: The Algeciras Conference | |
The Issue of Neutral Rights on the Eve of War | |
The Outbreak of World War I | |
Wilsonian Neutrality | |
The German Response: Submarine Warfare | |
Wilson's Temporary Victory: "He Kept Us Out of War" | |
America Enters the War | |
Controversial Issues | |
Further Reading | |
About the Author | |
Index | |
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