Chapter
1 Embryo of Empire:Americans and the World Before 1789
Diplomatic Crossroad:Jay,Franklin,Adams,and Negotiations for Independence,1782
Reaching for Independence:Ideology,Empire,and Commercial Power
Opportunity and Necessity:Alliance with France
What if... France had not formally allied with the United States beginning in 1778?
Suspicious Suitors in Europe
A Separate Peace:The Treaty of Paris
Ⅲ-Treated under the Articles of Confederation
The New Constitution and the Legacy of the Founders
FURTHER READING FOR THE PERIOD TO 1789
2 Independence,Expansion,and War,1789–1815
Diplomatic Crossroad:The Chesapeake Affair,1807
The French Revolution Reverberates in America
Commerce,Politics,and Diplomacy:Jay's Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty,France,and Washington's Farewell
Skillful Fencing:The XYZ Affair and the Quasi-War with France
Jefferson's Empire for Liberty
A European Madhouse:Blockades,Neutral Trade,and Impressment,1803–1807
“Peaceable Coercion”and the Path to the War of 1812
In All the Tenses:Why War Came
What if... President Madison had not asked Congress for war in 1812?
Wartime Diplomacy and the Peace of Ghent
The Legacy of a War Neither Won Nor Lost
FURTHER READING FOR THE PERIOD 1789–1815
3 Extending and Preserving the Empire,1815–1848
Diplomatic Crossroad:Mexican-American War on the Rio Grande,1846
Expanding the Continental Empire:Manifest Destiny
Commercial Ambitions in the Pacific
John Quincy Adams,the Floridas,and the Transcontinental Treaty
The Monroe Doctrine Sets the Compass
Measuring John Bull:Trade,Canada,and Other Intersections
Contest over the Oregon Country
The War with Mexico and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What if... Nicholas P.Trist had not negotiated a peace treaty with Mexico in 1848?
The Lessons and Costs of Expansion,1815–1848
FURTHER READING FOR THE PERIOD 1815–1848
4 Expansionism,Sectionalism,and Civil War,1848–1865
Diplomatic Crossroad:William Walker and Manifest Manhood in Central America,1855–1860
Sectionalism and Sputtering Expansionism
The South's Dream of Empire
Anglo-American D閠ente,an Isthmian Canal,and Central America
The American Civil War and International Relations
British“Lookers On”across the Atlantic
What if... Great Britain had recognized the Confederacy during the Civil War?
FURTHER READING FOR THE PERIOD 1848–1865
5 Establishing Regional Hegemony and Global Power,1865–1895
Diplomatic Crossroad:The Foiled Grab of the Dominican Republic,1869–1870
The Culture of Expansionism and Imperialism
Economic Expansion and Imperial Rivalry
Toward Command of the Seas:The New Navy
Secretary William H.Seward Projects the Future
Great Britain,Canada,and North American Disputes
Americans in Asia:China,Japan,and Korea
Pacific Prizes:Hawai'i and Samoa
What if... there had been no McKinley Tariff in 1890?
Latin America Moves into the Yankee Vortex
FURTHER READING FOR THE PERIOD 1865–1895
6 Imperialist Leap,1895–1900
Diplomatic Crossroad:The Maine,McKinley,and War,1898
The Venezuelan Crisis of 1895
Each in His Own Way:Cleveland and McKinley Confront Cuba Libre,1895–1898
What if... Spain had granted independence to Cuba in 1898?
The Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War
Men versus“Aunties”:The Debate over Empire in the United States
Imperial Collisions in Asia:The Philippine Insurrection and the Open Door in China
The Elbows of a World Power,1895–1900
FURTHER READING FOR THE PERIOD 1895–1900
7 Managing,Policing,and Extending the Empire,1900–1914
Diplomatic Crossroad:Severing Panama from Colombia for the Canal,1903
Cuba's Limited Independence under the Platt Amendment
The Constable of the Caribbean:The Roosevelt Corollary,Venezuela,and the Dominican Republic
Bringing Yankee Order to Haiti and Nicaragua
Resisting Revolution in Mexico
Japan,China,and Dollar Diplomacy in Asia
The Anglo-American Rapprochement,New Empire Building,and“Monstrous Shadows”
What if... manliness and civilization had not become linked in the minds of American leaders in the period 1900–1917?
FURTHER READING FOR THE PERIOD 1900–1914
8 War,Peace,and Revolution in the Time of Wilson,1914–1920
Diplomatic Crossroad:The Sinking of the Lusitania,1915
The Travails of Neutrality in a World at War
Submarines,Neutral Rights,and Mediation Efforts
Wilson's Choices Lead America into the World War
The Debate over Preparedness
The Doughboys Make a Difference in Europe
The Fourteen Points and a Contentious Peace Conference
Principle,Personality,Health,and Partisanship:The League Fight
What if... the president had accepted Senate reservations and the United States had joined the League of Nations in 1919–1920?
Red Scare at Home and Abroad:Bolshevism and Intervention in Russia
The Whispering Gallery of Global Disorder
FURTHER READING FOR THE PERIOD 1914–1920
Appendix:Makers of American Foreign Relations
American Foreign Relations
：A History,Volume 1: To 1920
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