THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS by William Earl Weeks ( 9781107005907 )

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THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS

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1107005906

ISBN 13:

9781107005907

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 February, 2013

Series:

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

Pages:

336

Description:

This new first volume proposes that the British North American colonists' desire for expansion, security and prosperity is the essence of American foreign relations.

Synopsis:

Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. This entirely new first volume narrates the British North American colonists' pre-existing desire for expansion, security and prosperity and argues that these desires are both the essence of American foreign relations and the root cause for the creation of the United States. They required the colonists to unite politically, as individual colonies could not dominate North America by themselves. Although ingrained localist sentiments persisted, a strong, durable Union was required for mutual success, thus American nationalism was founded on the idea of allegiance to the Union. Continued tension between the desire for expansion and the fragility of the Union eventually resulted in the Union's collapse and the Civil War.

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Cambridge University Press

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