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John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire

Author : William Earl Weeks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184096
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire written by William Earl Weeks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The man was John Quincy Adams, regarded by most historians as America's greatest secretary of state. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired Florida for the young United States, secured a western boundary extending to the Pacific, and bolstered the nation's position internationally. As William Weeks persuasively argues, the document also represented the first determined step in the creation of an American global empire. Weeks follows the course of the often labyrinthine negotiations by which Adams wrested the treaty from a recalcitrant Spain. The task required all of Adams's skill in diplomacy, for he faced a tangled skein of domestic and international controversies when he became secretary of state in 1817. The final document provided the United States commercial access to the Orient—a major objective of the Monroe administration that paved the way for the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. Adams, the son of a president and later himself president, saw himself as destined to play a crucial role in the growth and development of the United States. In this he succeeded. Yet his legendary statecraft proved bittersweet. Adams came to repudiate the slave society whose interests he had served by acquiring Florida, he was disgusted by the rapacity of the Jacksonians, and he experienced profound guilt over his own moral transgressions while secretary of state. In the end, Adams understood that great virtue cannot coexist with great power. Weeks's book, drawn in part from articles that won the Stuart Bernath Prize, makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and adds significantly to our picture of one of the nation's most important statesmen.

Building the Continental Empire

Author : William Earl Weeks
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461733200
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Building the Continental Empire written by William Earl Weeks and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Earl Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American empire. Mr. Weeks traces the origins of this initiative to the 1750s, when the Founding Fathers began to perceive the advantages of colonial union and the possibility of creating an empire within the British Empire that would provide security and the potential for commercial and territorial expansion. After the adoption of the Constitution—and a far stronger central government than had been popularly imagined—the need to expand combined with a messianic American nationalism. The result was aggressive diplomacy by successive presidential administrations. From the acquisition of Louisiana and Florida to the Mexican War, from the Monroe Doctrine to the annexation of Texas, Mr. Weeks describes the ideology and scope of American expansion in what has become known as the age of Manifest Destiny. Relations with Great Britain, France, and Spain; the role of missionaries, technology, and the federal government; and the issue of slavery are key elements in this succinct and thoughtful view of the making of the continental nation.

John Quincy Adams

Author : James E. Lewis, Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461665647
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by James E. Lewis, Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book focuses on John Quincy Adams's extensive role in foreign policy, including his years as secretary of state and as president. Brief but thorough, John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union analyzes Adams's foreign policy accomplishments during key moments in American history, including the Rush-Bagot Agreement, the Transcontinental Treaty, the recognition of the Spanish-American republics, and the Monroe Doctrine. At the same time, the book shows that Adams was far less successful than many historians suggest. John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union focuses on Adams's ideals of the centrality of the union to American happiness, the necessity of federal action to protect the union, and the indivisibil-ity of foreign and domestic concerns. This book's examination of these three points casts new light on the logic behind many of Adams's accomplishments and also exposes the sources of some of his failures. This is the first study to examine how Adams's views ultimately led to his failure as a policymaker. This book is ideal for courses in diplomatic history, American history, and American political history.

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

Author : William Earl Weeks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107005906
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations written by William Earl Weeks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new first volume proposes that the British North American colonists' desire for expansion, security and prosperity is the essence of American foreign relations.

Putting America First

Author : Angelo M Codevilla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645720249
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Putting America First written by Angelo M Codevilla and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the United States' relations with other nations as "America First" would have made no sense to presidents between George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt. They, committed to pursuing what Washington called "our interest guided by justice" and acting as the American people's fiduciary representatives, would not have considered any other priority. But the Progressive movement that won over American elites a hundred years ago premised precisely that U.S policy must concern itself primarily with mankind as a whole, with America only derivatively, and with values that transcend the American people. Hence, Progressives use the term "America First" to accuse other Americans of neglect of duty, stupidity, etc. But "America First," namely pursuing what benefits our American character and advances our legitimate interests, and regarding all foreign relations from that perspective--in short, fully minding our business while leaving other peoples to mind theirs--was the basis of the United States' successful foreign policy circa 1815-1910. Best described by John Quincy Adams and carried out by his successors, this is the foreign policy by which America grew great in peace. It remains the American people's common sense. This study contrasts this original "America First" foreign policy with the basis and results of the subsequent century's Progressive policy. It shows the transformation of a culture of peace and victory into that of statesmen who eliminate the very concepts of victory and peace from the military's official vocabulary as they manage endless wars. Then, the book examines how J.Q. Adams's insights are applicable to the current domestic and international environment--what "America First" can mean in our time.

Empire for Liberty

Author : Richard H. Immerman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781400834280
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Empire for Liberty written by Richard H. Immerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps? Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism--and in some cases, its crimes--with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Declaration of Independence? Empire for Liberty tells the story of men who used the rhetoric of liberty to further their imperial ambitions, and reveals that the quest for empire has guided the nation's architects from the very beginning--and continues to do so today. Historian Richard Immerman paints nuanced portraits of six exceptional public figures who manifestly influenced the course of American empire: Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Seward, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Foster Dulles, and Paul Wolfowitz. Each played a pivotal role as empire builder and, with the exception of Adams, did so without occupying the presidency. Taking readers from the founding of the republic to the Global War on Terror, Immerman shows how each individual's influence arose from a keen sensitivity to the concerns of his times; how the trajectory of American empire was relentless if not straight; and how these shrewd and powerful individuals shaped their rhetoric about liberty to suit their needs. But as Immerman demonstrates in this timely and provocative book, liberty and empire were on a collision course. And in the Global War on Terror and the occupation of Iraq, they violently collided.

Nation Builder

Author : Charles N. Edel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674368088
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Nation Builder written by Charles N. Edel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s rise from revolutionary colonies to a world power is often treated as inevitable. But Charles N. Edel’s provocative biography of John Q. Adams argues that he served as the central architect of a grand strategy whose ideas and policies made him a critical link between the founding generation and the Civil War–era nation of Lincoln.

America's Rise and Fall among Nations

Author : Angelo M. Codevilla
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772735
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book America's Rise and Fall among Nations written by Angelo M. Codevilla and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minding our own business, while leaving other peoples to mind theirs, was the basis of the United States’ successful foreign policy from 1815 to 1910. Best described in the works of John Quincy Adams and carried out by his successors throughout the nineteenth century, this is the foreign policy by which America grew prosperous and in peace. This policy also remains the commonsense philosophy of most Americans today. America’s Rise and Fall among Nations contrasts this original “America First” foreign policy with the principles and results of the following hundred years of “progressive” foreign policy which suddenly arrived with the election of Woodrow Wilson as president in 1912. The author explains why the many fruitless American wars—large and small—that followed Wilson's handling of World War I resulted in not only a failed peace, but also more conflicts abroad and at home. Finally, America’s Rise and Fall among Nations examines how John Quincy Adams’s insights are applicable to our current domestic and international environments and exemplify what “America First” can mean in our time. They chart a clear path to escape America’s previous eleven disastrous decades of so-called “progressive” international relations.

John Quincy Adams

Author : Lynn Hudson Parsons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442202882
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Lynn Hudson Parsons and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was born in 1767, a subject of the British Empire, and died in 1848, a citizen of the United States and a member of Congress in company with Abraham Lincoln. In his dramatic career he had known George Washington and Benjamiin Franklin, La Fayette of France, Alexander I of Russia, and Castlereagh of Great Britain. He had both collaborated and quarrelled with Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. In his lifetime Americans had fought for and established their independence, adopted a Constitution, fought two wars with Great Britain and one with Mexico. They had expanded south to the Rio Grande and west to the Pacific. At the time of his death, Adams was seen as a living connection between the present and past of the young republic and his passing severed one of the nation's last ties with its founding generation. As son of the second president of the United States, father of the minister to the Court of St. James, and grandfather to author Henry Adams, John Quincy Adams was part of an American dynasty. In his own career as secretary of state, President, senator, and congressman, Adams was as an actor in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century. In this concise biography, Lynn Hudson Parsons masterfully chronicles the life of one of America's most absorbing figures. From the day in 1778 when, as a boy, he accompanied his father on a diplomatic mission to France, to his last years as an eloquent , cantankerous opponent of this country's foreign and domestic policies, Adams was rarely detached from public affairs. And yet, this biography reveals Adams as a man never truly at home anywhere—in Washington he was stubborn and reclusive, in Europe he was a phlegmatic ideologue, a bulldog among spaniels. His story parallels America's own.

The Rising American Empire

Author : Richard Warner Van Alstyne
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393007503
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Rising American Empire written by Richard Warner Van Alstyne and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the origins, emergence, growth, and peculiar characteristics of the United States as a national state whose policies and goals have been, from the beginning, those of an empire. Bibliogs.

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

Author : William Earl Weeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316172360
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations written by William Earl Weeks and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Quincy Adams

Author : Robert V. Remini
Publisher : Times Books
ISBN 13 : 1466871865
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Robert V. Remini and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of a man whose pre- and post-presidential careers overshadowed his presidency. Chosen president by the House of Representatives after an inconclusive election against Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams often failed to mesh with the ethos of his era, pushing unsuccessfully for a strong, consolidated national government. Historian Robert V. Remini recounts how in the years before his presidency Adams was a shrewd, influential diplomat, and later, as a dynamic secretary of state under President James Monroe, he solidified many basic aspects of American foreign policy, including the Monroe Doctrine. Undoubtedly his greatest triumph was the negotiation of the Transcontinental Treaty, through which Spain acknowledged Florida to be part of the United States. After his term in office, he earned the nickname "Old Man Eloquent" for his passionate antislavery speeches.

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 1, Dimensions of the Early American Empire, 1754-1865

Author : William Earl Weeks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107536227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 1, Dimensions of the Early American Empire, 1754-1865 written by William Earl Weeks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. This entirely new first volume narrates the British North American colonists' preexisting desire for expansion, security, and prosperity, and argues that these desires are both the essence of American foreign relations and the root cause for the creation of the United States. They required the colonists to unite politically, as individual colonies could not dominate North America by themselves. Although ingrained localist sentiments persisted, a strong, durable Union was required for mutual success, thus American nationalism was founded on the idea of allegiance to the Union. Continued tension between the desire for expansion and the fragility of the Union eventually resulted in the Union's collapse and the Civil War.

John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy

Author : Samuel Flagg Bemis
Publisher : New York : A. A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy written by Samuel Flagg Bemis and published by New York : A. A. Knopf. This book was released on 1949 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Path of Empire

Author : Carl Russell Fish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Path of Empire written by Carl Russell Fish and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Quincy Adams

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756502546
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, focusing on his lifetime of public service, including his years in the Senate and House of Representatives and his time in foreign service.

The Presidency of John Quincy Adams

Author : Mary W. M. Hargreaves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Presidency of John Quincy Adams written by Mary W. M. Hargreaves and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service in the White House. Critics, on the other hand, have described his administration as a failure, founded upon "bargain and corruption" and marked by exclusion of the United States from the British West Indian trade, the ineffectiveness of its efforts to promote strong Pan-American relationships, and the enactment of the "tariff of abominations." Some analysts have even argued that it generated the sectionalism which terminated the "Era of Good Feelings." Mary Hargreaves contends, instead, that the basic effort of Adams's presidency was to harmonize divergent sectional interests. To ignore the Adams administration's commitment to nationalism, she argues, is to overlook a fundamental stage in the establishment of the federal government as guardian of the general interest. The volume contains new information on the development of United States commercial policy, the nation's early relationships with Latin America, and difficulties of local and regional adjustment to the growth of the national economy. It will be of keen interest to all students of the economic and political history of the early national period.