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Foundations fo American Diplomacy, 1775-1872
Foundations fo American Diplomacy 17751872 Author:Robert H. Ferrell The first requisite of Americans, once they had delcared their independence, was to maintain it- and so over the next fifty years, until the time of the Monroe Doctrine, the diplomacy of the United States dealt with independence. Such a subject of policy might seem odd today when the United States is the most powerful nation in the world. In t... more »he late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the American republic was a small if growing power....independence was no achievement to take for granted....« less