Monroe Doctrine Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: Monroe Doctrine Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780809069996

ISBN-10: 0809069997

ISBN-13: 9780809069996

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jay Sexton

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President James Monroe’s 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe’s message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it rapidly became the myth and means for subsequent generations of politicians to pursue expansionist foreign policies. Time and again, debates on the key issues of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foreign relations—expansion in the 1840s, Civil War diplomacy, the imperialism of 1898, entrance into World War I, and the establishment of the League of Nations—were framed in relation to the Monroe Doctrine. In Jay Sexton’s adroit hands, the…

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List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Map


Introduction



Independence



American Systems



A Declaration, a Doctrine, and a Disavowal



Civil Wars



Control



Intervention


Conclusion


Notes


Suggestions for Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Index