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The Papers of James Madison v. 2; 1 October 1809-2 November 1810 - Presidential Series (Hardcover)
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The Papers of James Madison v. 2; 1 October 1809-2 November 1810 - Presidential Series (Hardcover)
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This second volume of the presidential papers of James Madison
covers the period between October 1809 and November 1810. These 13
months were dominated by foreign policy problems as Madison
laboured to protect American neutral rights from the aggressions of
France and Great Britain. The published papers record the
president's difficulties in negotiating with the British diplomat
Francis James Jackson as well as his struggle to persuade Congress
to persevere with policies of economic coercion against the
European belligerents. He was not always successful, but by
November 1810 Madison had been able to reimpose nonintercourse
against Great Britain, thereby setting the stage for the events
that led directly to the War of 1812. Equally important was
Madison's response to changes in Spanish America, and the editorial
annotation of the documents here casts much new light on his
decision to annex parts of Spanish West Florida to the United
States in October 1810. The volume also illuminates the range of
Madison's executive activities on the domestic front - from dealing
with congress to supervising the construction of the public
buildings in Washington, DC and conducting diplomacy with
increasingly restless Indians on the frontier. Of interest, too, is
the material on Madison's relationships with his cabinet
colleagues, particularly his controversial Secretary of State,
Robert Smith. These papers show a president constantly involved in
the daily business of government, and they will enable scholars to
develop fresh perspectives on the growth of the executive branch.
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