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Control # 1 2019044479
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20210419163717.0
Fixed Data 8 200119s2020 miuab b s001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2019044479
ISBN 20    $a9780472074402$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $a9780472054404$q(paperback)
ISBN 20    $z9780472126484$q(ebook)
Obsolete 39    $a327051$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aLBSOR/DLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---
LC Call 50 00 $aE310.7$b.K63 2020
Dewey Class 82 00 $a973.3/2$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aKochin, Michael Shalom,$d1970-$eauthor.
Title 245 13 $aAn independent empire :$bdiplomacy and war in the making of the United States /$cMichael S. Kochin and Michael Taylor.
Tag 264 264  1 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c2020.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a309 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction: an independent empire -- The British and the problems of American empire -- Foreign alliance and the Revolutionary War -- Peace and the Treaty of Paris -- Foreign policy and the United States Constitution -- The United States and the French Revolution, 1789-1794 -- Three treaties -- Saint Domingue and the Quasi-War, 1797-1800 -- The purchase and the pirates, 1800-1805 -- Embargo -- The War of 1812 -- American progress at Spanish expense, 1815-1819 -- Monsters and the American system -- The Monroe Doctrine -- The Congress of Panama.
Abstract 520    $a"Foreign policies and diplomatic missions, combined with military action, were the driving forces behind the growth of the early United States. In an era when the Old and New Worlds were subject to British, French, and Spanish imperial ambitions, the new republic had limited diplomatic presence and minimal public credit. It was vulnerable to hostile forces in every direction. The United States could not have survived, grown, or flourished without the adoption of prescient foreign policies, or without skillful diplomatic operations. An Independent Empire shows how foreign policy and diplomacy constitute a truly national story, necessary for understanding the history of the United States. In this lively and well-written book, episodes in American history- such as the writing and ratification of the Constitution, Henry Clay's advocacy of an American System, Pinckney's Treaty with Spain, and the visionary but absurd Congress of Panama- are recast as elemental aspects of United States foreign and security policy. An Independent Empire tells the stories of the people who defined the early history of America's international relationships. Throughout the book are brief, entertaining vignettes of often-overlooked intellectuals, spies, diplomats, and statesmen whose actions and decisions shaped the first fifty years of the United States. More than a dozen bespoke maps illustrate that the growth of the early United States was as much a geographical as a political or military phenomenon."--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1775-1783.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1783-1865.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1783-1865.
AE:Pers Name 700 $aTaylor, Michael$q(Michael Hugh),$d1988-$eauthor.