Early American Foreign Relations: Opportunities and Challenges

Diplomatic History

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-120

  Perkins, Bradford ^a  

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EID: 0038915251     PISSN: 01452096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0145-2096.00105     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Charles S. Maier, "Marking Time: The Historiography of International Relations," in The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States, ed. Michael Kammen (Ithaca, 1980), 355-87. Maier also included useful suggestions for improvement.
2. Michael H. Hunt, "The Long Crisis in U.S. Diplomatic History: Coming to Closure," Diplomatic History 16 (Winter 1992): 115-40. Whether this progress translated into broader recognition by other historians is, at best, problematic. John Gaddis is surely correct in maintaining that diplomatic historians are often viewed as filling "something like the evolutionary niche filled by the crocodile, the armadillo, and the cockroach, . . . still rather primitive and, for that reason, not very interesting." John Lewis Gaddis, "New Conceptual Approaches to the Study of American Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 14 (Summer 1990): 406.
3. Michael H. Hunt, "The Long Crisis in U.S. Diplomatic History: Coming to Closure," Diplomatic History 16 (Winter 1992): 115-40. Whether this progress translated into broader recognition by other historians is, at best, problematic. John Gaddis is surely correct in maintaining that diplomatic historians are often viewed as filling "something like the evolutionary niche filled by the crocodile, the armadillo, and the cockroach, . . . still rather primitive and, for that reason, not very interesting." John Lewis Gaddis, "New Conceptual Approaches to the Study of American Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 14 (Summer 1990): 406.
4. Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, eds., Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (New York, 1991).
5. Samuel Flagg Bemis, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (New York, 1935); Jonathan R. Dull, A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution (New Haven, 1985).
6. Samuel Flagg Bemis, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (New York, 1935); Jonathan R. Dull, A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution (New Haven, 1985).
7. Arthur P. Whitaker, The Spanish-American Frontier, 1783-1795 (New York, 1927); idem, The Mississippi Question, 1795-1803 (New York, 1934).
8. Arthur P. Whitaker, The Spanish-American Frontier, 1783-1795 (New York, 1927); idem, The Mississippi Question, 1795-1803 (New York, 1934).
9. Michael H. Hunt, "Internationalizing U.S. Diplomatic History: A Practical Agenda," Diplomatic History 15 (Winter 1991): 1-11.
10. John J. Johnson, A Hemisphere Apart: The Foundations of United States Policy toward Latin America (Baltimore, 1990).
11. Peggy Liss, Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713-1826 (Baltimore, 1983).
12. David Hancock, Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (New York, 1995).
13. Paul A. Varg, New England and Foreign Relations, 1789-1850 (Hanover, NH, 1983).
14. Morrell Heald and Lawrence S. Kaplan, Culture and Diplomacy: The American Experience (Westport, CT, 1977).
15. Max Savelle, The Origins of American Diplomacy: The International History of Anglo-America, 1492-1763 (New York, 1967).
16. For a statement of his views see Akira Iriye, "Culture and International History," in Hogan and Paterson, eds., Explaining, 214-25.
17. Roger H. Brown, The Republic in Peril: 1812 (New York, 1964).
18. Steven Watts, The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (Baltimore, 1987).
19. Drew R. McCoy, The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (Chapel Hill, 1980).
20. David B. Davis, Revolutions (Cambridge, MA, 1990).
21. Joseph I. Shulim, The Old Dominion and Napoleon Bonaparte (New York, 1952).
22. Reginald Stuart, The Half-Way Pacifist: Thomas Jefferson's View of War (Toronto, 1978); Burton Spivak, Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution (Charlottesville, 1979); Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1990); Doron Ben-Atar, The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (New York, 1995). Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1997), a superb accomplishment, has little to say on Jefferson's diplomacy.
23. Reginald Stuart, The Half-Way Pacifist: Thomas Jefferson's View of War (Toronto, 1978); Burton Spivak, Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution (Charlottesville, 1979); Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1990); Doron Ben-Atar, The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (New York, 1995). Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1997), a superb accomplishment, has little to say on Jefferson's diplomacy.
24. Reginald Stuart, The Half-Way Pacifist: Thomas Jefferson's View of War (Toronto, 1978); Burton Spivak, Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution (Charlottesville, 1979); Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1990); Doron Ben-Atar, The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (New York, 1995). Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1997), a superb accomplishment, has little to say on Jefferson's diplomacy.
25. Reginald Stuart, The Half-Way Pacifist: Thomas Jefferson's View of War (Toronto, 1978); Burton Spivak, Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution (Charlottesville, 1979); Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1990); Doron Ben-Atar, The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (New York, 1995). Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1997), a superb accomplishment, has little to say on Jefferson's diplomacy.
26. Reginald Stuart, The Half-Way Pacifist: Thomas Jefferson's View of War (Toronto, 1978); Burton Spivak, Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution (Charlottesville, 1979); Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1990); Doron Ben-Atar, The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (New York, 1995). Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York, 1997), a superb accomplishment, has little to say on Jefferson's diplomacy.
27. J. C. A. Stagg, Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early Republic, 1783-1830 (Princeton, 1983). chaps. 1 and 2.
28. Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy (Princeton, 1961); James H. Hutson, "Intellectual Foundations of Early American Diplomacy," Diplomatic History 1 (Winter 1977): 1-19. Although Hutson is usually considered to have been the "winner" in this debate, the new emphasis on republicanism and the distinctiveness of American modes of thought suggest that reexamination is in order.
29. Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy (Princeton, 1961); James H. Hutson, "Intellectual Foundations of Early American Diplomacy," Diplomatic History 1 (Winter 1977): 1-19. Although Hutson is usually considered to have been the "winner" in this debate, the new emphasis on republicanism and the distinctiveness of American modes of thought suggest that reexamination is in order.
30. Gerald Stourzh, Benjamin Franklin and American Foreign Policy (Chicago, 1954); idem, Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Government (Stanford, 1970).
31. Gerald Stourzh, Benjamin Franklin and American Foreign Policy (Chicago, 1954); idem, Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Government (Stanford, 1970).
32. Greg Russell, John Quincy Adams and the Public Virtues of Diplomacy (Columbia, MO, 1995); Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundation of American Foreign Policy (New York, 1949); David M. Fitzsimons, "Tom Paine's New World Order: Idealistic Internationalism in the Ideology of Early American Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 19 (Fall 1995): 569-82.
33. Greg Russell, John Quincy Adams and the Public Virtues of Diplomacy (Columbia, MO, 1995); Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundation of American Foreign Policy (New York, 1949); David M. Fitzsimons, "Tom Paine's New World Order: Idealistic Internationalism in the Ideology of Early American Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 19 (Fall 1995): 569-82.
34. Greg Russell, John Quincy Adams and the Public Virtues of Diplomacy (Columbia, MO, 1995); Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundation of American Foreign Policy (New York, 1949); David M. Fitzsimons, "Tom Paine's New World Order: Idealistic Internationalism in the Ideology of Early American Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 19 (Fall 1995): 569-82.
35. Kinley J. Brauer, "The Great American Desert Revisited: Recent Literature and Prospects for the Study of American Foreign Relations, 1815-61," Diplomatic History 13 (Summer 1989): 407.
36. William E. Weeks, "New Directions in the Study of Early American Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 17 (Winter 1993): 93.
37. Among other things, the Native American nations were not, of course, allowed to have relations, at least open ones, with foreign powers. Chief Justice Marshall described them as "domestic dependent nations" in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia in 1831; this seems an accurate, if insensitive, characterization.
38. Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (New York, 1991).
39. Julius W. Pratt, Expansionists of 1812 (New York, 1925).