Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World, from it's Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century

Cover......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 10
Contents......Page 15
Introduction......Page 19
The Myth of the \"City upon a Hill\": The Americanization of the Puritan Mission......Page 23
The Expansionist \"Mission\"......Page 28
The \"Policy of Savages\"......Page 33
Power and Independence......Page 46
The American Revolution and the Universalization of American Foreign Policy......Page 55
From Strength to Weakness: The Birth of \"Practical Idealism\"......Page 68
Nationalism and Foreign Policy: The Making of the Constitution......Page 81
Lockean Man and Liberal Expansion......Page 87
American Indian Policy: Power and Responsibility......Page 97
Commerce and the Mediterranean......Page 109
The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy......Page 120
The Farewell Address: Politics and Policy......Page 128
The Call to Greatness......Page 142
The American Ideology of Expansion, 1800–1823......Page 146
War and Nationalism......Page 157
America and the Global Ideological Struggle of the Post-Napoleonic Era......Page 173
Ideology and Expansion: Toward the Monroe Doctrine......Page 185
The \"National Interest\" of Slavery......Page 197
The Civilization of Progress and the \"Civilization of Antiquity\"......Page 204
The Missouri Crisis......Page 212
Slavery and Foreign Policy \"Realism\"......Page 216
America the Rogue State: The South Confronts the British Antislavery Crusade......Page 226
The Annexation of Texas: A \"Southern Question\"......Page 234
Northern Containment, Southern Expansion: America\'s Two Foreign Policies......Page 240
The Southern Dream of Tropical Empire......Page 250
The Foreign Policy of the North: Beyond Slavery......Page 262
The Republican Party and the \"Apple of Gold\"......Page 274
The \"Second American Revolution\"......Page 281
The Republican Vision......Page 295
\"Civilization as Ideology\"......Page 302
The Rise to Security......Page 317
From Power to Ambition: The Western Hemisphere......Page 320
From Power to Ambition: Asia and the Pacific......Page 340
From Ambition to Power: The New Navy......Page 356
The Democracy\'s Dissent......Page 373
The Humanitarian War......Page 390
1  The First Imperialists......Page 433
2  The Foreign Policy of Revolution......Page 438
3  Liberalism and Expansion......Page 444
4  To the Farewell Address and Beyond......Page 449
5  \"Peaceful Conquest\"......Page 454
6  A Republic in the Age of Monarchy......Page 458
7  The Foreign Policy of Slavery......Page 461
8  Manifest Destinies......Page 469
9  Beyond the National Interest......Page 473
10  War and Progress......Page 476
11  From Power to Ambition, from Ambition to Power......Page 482
12  Morality and Hegemony......Page 489
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Acknowledgments......Page 523
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