Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-384) and index.
Contents:
The problem and its modes -- American internationalism -- Imperialism and nationalism -- The rival systems of Hamilton and Jefferson -- The causes of war -- Louisiana! -- Balances of power -- The confederation of Europe -- New world and old world -- To the Panama Congress -- Into the deep freeze -- Great and fearfully growing -- The title page -- Constitutional disorder -- Decentralizing tendencies -- The hope of the world -- Reds and whites -- The removal of the Cherokee -- Annexation of Texas and war with Mexico -- The great debate of 1848 -- Intervention for nonintervention: the Kossuth tour -- Invitation to a beheading -- Causes of the war, causes of the peace -- D.I.V.O.R.C.E -- The tragedy of Civil War -- The new nation -- A new birth of freedom? -- "Free security" and "imperial understretch" -- A world of its own -- The unionist paradigm revisited -- The new nationalism and the Spanish War -- Imperialism and the conquest of the Philippines -- Informal empire and the protection of nationals -- Seward and the new imperialism -- Before the deluge -- "Great utterance" and Madisonian moment -- Safe for democracy -- The liberal peace program goes to Paris -- The great debate of 1919 -- Nationalism, internationalism, and imperialism in the 1920s -- The great depression and economic nationalism -- Isolation and neutrality -- The final reckoning.
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