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The definitive biography of Louisa Catherine, wife and political
partner of President John Quincy Adams "Insightful and
entertaining."-Susan Dunn, New York Review of Books A New York
Times Book Review Editor's Choice Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams,
wife and political partner of John Quincy Adams, became one of the
most widely known women in America when her husband assumed office
as sixth president in 1 825. Shrewd, intellectual, and articulate,
she was close to the center of American power over many decades,
and extensive archives reveal her as an unparalleled observer of
the politics, personalities, and issues of her day. Louisa left
behind a trove of journals, essays, letters, and other writings,
yet no biographer has mined these riches until now. Margery Heffron
brings Louisa out of the shadows at last to offer the first full
and nuanced portrait of an extraordinary first lady. The book
begins with Louisa's early life in London and Nantes, France, then
details her excruciatingly awkward courtship and engagement to John
Quincy, her famous diplomatic success in tsarist Russia, her life
as a mother, years abroad as the wife of a distinguished diplomat,
and finally the Washington, D.C., era when, as a legendary hostess,
she made no small contribution to her husband's successful bid for
the White House. Louisa's sharp insights as a tireless recorder
provide a fresh view of early American democratic society,
presidential politics and elections, and indeed every important
political and social issue of her time.
Exploring how modern internationalism emerged as a negotiated
process through international conferences, this edited collection
studies the spaces and networks through which states, civil society
institutions and anti-colonial political networks used these events
to realise their visions of the international. Taking an
interdisciplinary approach, contributors explore the spatial
paradox of two fundamental features of modern internationalism.
First, internationalism demanded the overcoming of space,
transcending the nation-state in search of the shared interests of
humankind. Second, internationalism was geographically contingent
on the places in which people came together to conceive and enact
their internationalist ideas. From Paris 1919 to Bandung 1955 and
beyond, this book explores international conferences as the sites
in which different forms of internationalism assumed material and
social form. While international 'permanent institutions' such as
the League of Nations, UN and Institute of Pacific Relations
constantly negotiated national and imperial politics,
lesser-resourced political networks also used international
conferences to forward their more radical demands. Taken together
these conferences radically expand our conception of where and how
modern internationalism emerged, and make the case for focusing on
internationalism in a contemporary moment when its merits are being
called into question.
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