Foreign Affairs And The Founding Fathers

Author : Norman A. Graebner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313398275
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Affairs and the Founding Fathers written by Norman A. Graebner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise diplomatic history of the Confederation era is the first new work on the topic in a generation. In its pages, three distinguished diplomatic historians offer a realist interpretation of the way in which the Founding Fathers conducted foreign affairs, refreshing our collective memory about their priorities and their values. When three of the nation's leading historians come together to fashion a fresh study of American history, the resulting work cannot help but be a monumental addition to the field. Foreign Affairs and the Founding Fathers: From Confederation to Constitution, 1776–1787 is such a work. These eminent scholars provide a thoughtful, realist interpretation of the Founders' view of America's place in the world, delivering a timely reassessment of their aspirations, thoughts, and actions during the seminal decades of the American nation. This book takes readers backstage where they can eavesdrop on the Founders to better understand their motives and intentions and see how they responded to threats and problems associated with America's place in the world. Arguing that the Founding Fathers essentially thought and acted in terms of power—ranking matters of national interest and security over ideology and moral concerns—the book sheds new light on the foreign policy opportunities and challenges of the day, as the Founders weighed and determined them. In so doing, it offers important guideposts for our own time.

Author : Paul A. Varg
Publisher : Michigan State U.P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policies of the Founding Fathers written by Paul A. Varg and published by Michigan State U.P. This book was released on 1964 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick W. Marks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461732239
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Independence on Trial written by Frederick W. Marks and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Independence on Trial, Frederick W. Marks III focuses on the impact of foreign affairs and trade, arguing that they had an overwhelming influence in shaping constitutional reform for the founding fathers. He argues that problems relating to the conducting of foreign affairs far outweighed any other issues facing the Confederation and that the Federalist's desire for a more advantageous position in the world was their overriding concern which gave rise to the Constitution.

Author : Willem Theo Oosterveld
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004305688
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Nations in Early American Foreign Policy written by Willem Theo Oosterveld and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Law of Nations in Early American Foreign Policy, Willem Theo Oosterveld provides the first general study of international law as interpreted and applied by the generation of the Founding Fathers.

Author : Martin Weil
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393056587
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pretty Good Club written by Martin Weil and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873383479
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entangling Alliances with None written by Lawrence S. Kaplan and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over a thirty-year period, the essays included in this volume develop one central theme: the completion of American isolationism in the formative years of the nation. Isolationism, in Kaplan's view, is not to be taken as economic or cultural independence but as abstention from political or military obligations to Europe, from alliances or from purposeful entanglement in the European balance of power. This study focuses on the assertion that Thomas Jefferson was central to the making of American foreign policy from the Revolution to 1803. But Kaplan's view is not always supportive of Jefferson. In fact, Kaplan believes the collection has a "Hamiltonian flavor," although he does not necessarily consider himself a Hamiltonian either. Kaplan is critical of Jefferson and points clearly to the error of his belief that France could be a counterweight to British power. In the short run Hamilton appears more realistic, but in the long run Jefferson's vision for the country proved wiser and sounder.

Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804172471
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Dialogue written by Joseph J. Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today. The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?" He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today's political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions—and in his hallmark dramatic and compelling narrative voice—Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.

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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610164474
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy of Freedom written by and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691241414
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fears of a Setting Sun written by Dennis C. Rasmussen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them—including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson—came to deem America’s constitutional experiment an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation. Fears of a Setting Sun is the first book to tell the fascinating and too-little-known story of the founders’ disillusionment. As Dennis Rasmussen shows, the founders’ pessimism had a variety of sources: Washington lost his faith in America’s political system above all because of the rise of partisanship, Hamilton because he felt that the federal government was too weak, Adams because he believed that the people lacked civic virtue, and Jefferson because of sectional divisions laid bare by the spread of slavery. The one major founder who retained his faith in America’s constitutional order to the end was James Madison, and the book also explores why he remained relatively optimistic when so many of his compatriots did not. As much as Americans today may worry about their country’s future, Rasmussen reveals, the founders faced even graver problems and harbored even deeper misgivings. A vividly written account of a chapter of American history that has received too little attention, Fears of a Setting Sun will change the way that you look at the American founding, the Constitution, and indeed the United States itself.

Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156028721
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brilliant Solution written by Carol Berkin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting all the original documents and using her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century history and politics, Carol Berkin takes a fresh look at the men who framed the Constitution, the issues they faced, and the times they lived in. Berkin transports the reader into the hearts and minds of the founders, exposing their fears and their limited expectations of success.