The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood: The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1783-1829Univ of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 304 էջ In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American ideas about and concern for the union of the states in the policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the nation's founding in the 1780s, he says, this focus on securing a u |
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The Union and Its Neighbors 17831815 | 12 |
the Crucible of War 18071815 | 41 |
The Quest for Security 18151817 | 69 |
Unexpected Continuities Unexpected Changes 18171819 | 96 |
Expansion Empire and Union 18191821 | 126 |
The American Neighborhood Redefined 18211825 | 155 |
The Ambiguities of Unionism 18251829 | 188 |
Conclusion | 215 |
Notes | 221 |
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Էջ 7 - Extensive military establishments cannot, in this position, be necessary to our security. But if we should be disunited, and the integral parts should either remain separated, or, which is most probable, should be thrown together into two or three confederacies, we should be, in a short course of time, in the predicament of the continental powers of Europe — our liberties would be a prey to the means of defending ourselves against the ambition and jealousy of each other.
Էջ 5 - To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent, unconnected sovereignties situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.