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American Foreign Policy to 1899

Selected and introduced by Stephen F. Knott

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Overview

American Foreign Policy to 1899 is the first of two volumes on聽American foreign policy in Ashbrook鈥檚 series of core document聽volumes covering major periods, themes, and institutions in American聽history and government. This volume covers the story of America鈥檚 foreign聽relations through the rise of the United States to great power status. Its聽companion volume will cover events of the twentieth century, as well聽as the attack on September 11. This volume presents such cornerstones聽of American foreign policy as Washington鈥檚 Farewell Address and the聽Monroe Doctrine, but also covers some of the less well known practices聽and incidents of the nineteenth century. The similarities between the聽issues and practices presented in this volume and those that occurred in聽the twentieth century, during the Cold War, for example, are striking.

The two foreign policy volumes, along with the already published volume The Cold War, will together offer a thorough account of American foreign聽policy. This volume also forms a pair with the already published volume Westward Expansion. Covering roughly the same time period, Westward聽Expansion deals with the acquisition of territory that became states,聽while American Foreign Policy to 1899 deals with everything else. The聽one exception to this division of labor concerns Hawaii, covered in both聽volumes, although from different perspectives.

Table of Contents

Documents Include:

  • Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to William Short, January 3, 1793
  • Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates, June鈥揝eptember 1793
  • Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, 鈥淰iews on the French Revolution,鈥 1794
  • President George Washington, Message to the House of Representatives, March 30, 1796
  • President George Washington, Farewell Address, September 1796
  • President James Monroe, Annual Message (Monroe Doctrine), December 2, 1823
  • Joel R. Poinsett to Secretary of State Henry Clay and Secretary of State Martin Van Buren, Selected Dispatches, 1825鈥1829
  • Thomas Jefferson to Roger Chew Weightman, June 24, 1826
  • The Acquisition of Hawaii, Correspondence between Secretary of State John W. Foster and Ambassador John Stevens, 1892鈥1893; American Diplomacy in the Orient, John W. Foster, 1904
  • Secretary of State Richard Olney to Ambassador Thomas Bayard, The Olney Corollary, 1895
  • President William McKinley, Message to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War with Spain, April 11, 1898
  • Carl Schurz, 鈥淎gainst American Imperialism,鈥 January 4, 1899