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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, Transmitting the Conclusions of Fact and Law Files by the Court Under the Act of January 20, 1885, in the French Spoliation Claim in the Matter of the Schooner Nancy, Nathaniel Lincoln, Master
History of Berlin, Connecticut
Author: Catharine Melinda NorthPublisher:
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Category : Berlin (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
Author: William Earl WeeksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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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.
The History of Tammany Hall
Author: Gustavus MyersPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Pension Appropriation Bill
Author: Vincent BoreingCatalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
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A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians
Author: Lucian Lamar KnightPublisher:
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Prominent and Progressive Americans
Author: History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana
Author: Hubert Howe BancroftPublisher:
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Category : Idaho
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Author: James Robert PringlePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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