Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Cyclopædia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States, by the Best American and European Writers
Author: John Joseph LalorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934
Author: United States. Marine CorpsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
Author: William Earl WeeksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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.
Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949: Multilateral, 1946-1949
Author: United StatesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The Federalist Papers
Author: Alexander HamiltonPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528785878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
North Atlantic Coast Fisheries
Author: Permanent Court of ArbitrationPublisher:
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Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
Author: Broadus MitchellPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
America's Forgotten Colony
Author: Michael NeaglePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107136857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Analysis of the American presence on the Isle of Pines illustrates how US influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba.