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A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American Empire
President James Monroes 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroes message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it rapidly became the myth and means for subsequent generations of politicians to pursue expansionist foreign policies. Time and again, debates on the key issues of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foreign relationsexpansion in the 1840s, Civil War diplomacy, the imperialism of 1898, entrance into World War I, and the establishment of the League of Nationswere framed in relation to the Monroe Doctrine.
Covering more than a century of history, this engaging book explores the varying conceptions of the doctrine as its meaning evolved in relation to the needs of an expanding American empire. In Jay Sextons adroit hands, the Monroe Doctrine provides a new lens from which to view the paradox at the center of American diplomatic history: the nations interdependent traditions of anticolonialism and imperialism.
Author: Jay Sexton
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 02/28/2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780809069996
Language: English
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