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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.