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The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood - The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783-1829 (Paperback, New edition)
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The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood - The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783-1829 (Paperback, New edition)
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In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American
ideas about and concern for the union of the states in the
policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the
nation's founding in the 1780s, he says, this focus on securing a
union operated to blur the line between foreign policies and
domestic concerns. Such leading policymakers as Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay
worried about the challenges to the goals of the Revolution that
would arise from a hostile neighborhood--whether composed of new
nations outside the union or the existing states following a
division of the union. At the center of Lewis's story is the
American response to the dissolution of Spain's empire in the New
World, from the transfer of Louisiana to France in 1800 to the
independence of Spain's mainland colonies in the 1820s. The breakup
of the Spanish empire, he argues, presented a series of crises for
the unionist logic of American policymakers, leading them, finally,
to abandon a crucial element of the distinctly American approach to
international relations embodied in their own federal union. |Uses
the American response to the dissolution of Spain's empire in the
New World (1783-1829) to demonstrate that American concern for the
union of the states was a major factor in the policymaking of the
early republic.
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