The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations - Softcover

Weeks, William Earl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107536227 ISBN 13: 9781107536227

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

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' preexisting 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.

About this title

Book Description:

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 proposes that the British North American colonists' preexisting desire for expansion, security, and prosperity is both the essence of American foreign relations and the root cause for the creation of the United States.

About the Author:

William Earl Weeks is Lecturer in History at San Diego State University. He is the author of John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire (1992) and Building the Continental Empire, 1815-1861, and co-editor of American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107536227
• ISBN 13: 9781107536227
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338