John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire by William Earl Weeks (2002, Trade Paperback)

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This is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired Florida for the young United States, secured a western boundary extending to the Pacific, and bolstered the nation's position internationally.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky

ISBN-100813190584

ISBN-139780813190587

eBay Product ID (ePID)4627473

Product Key Features

Number of Pages252 Pages

Publication NameJohn Quincy Adams and American Global Empire

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), International Relations / General, Presidents & Heads of State, International Relations / Treaties

Publication Year2002

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorWilliam Earl Weeks

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight13.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"An impressive synthesis of interpretations, personal information about Adams, his wife, and his family, and the details of the negotiations through which Florida was acquired and a borderline to the Pacific for the US and Spain was drawn." -- Choice, An intelligently argued and tightly written study that ably explores both Spanish-American relations and the complex and contradictory mind of John Quincy Adams., "An excellent acquisition in a period of American diplomatic history that has had too little recent scholarly attention." -- Choice, An impressive synthesis of interpretations, personal information about Adams, his wife, and his family, and the details of the negotiations through which Florida was acquired and a borderline to the Pacific for the US and Spain was drawn., "An intelligently argued and tightly written study that ably explores both Spanish-American relations and the complex and contradictory mind of John Quincy Adams.-- Journal of the Early Republic" -- Journal of the Early Republic, "An intelligently argued and tightly written study that ably explores both Spanish-American relations and the complex and contradictory mind of John Quincy Adams." -- Journal of the Early Republic, Uses the story of a single event to reveal a great deal about the era in which it took place--and something about our own times as well., "An impressive synthesis of interpretations, personal information about Adams, his wife, and his family, and the details of the negotiations through which Florida was acquired and a borderline to the Pacific for the US and Spain was drawn.-- Choice" -- Choice, "An excellent acquisition in a period of American diplomatic history that has had too little recent scholarly attention.-- Choice" -- Choice, An excellent acquisition in a period of American diplomatic history that has had too little recent scholarly attention., "Uses the story of a single event to reveal a great deal about the era in which it took place -- and something about our own times as well." -- Library Journal, "Uses the story of a single event to reveal a great deal about the era in which it took place -- and something about our own times as well.-- Library Journal" -- Library Journal

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal973.5/5/092

SynopsisThis is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The man was John Quincy Adams, regarded by most historians as America's greatest secretary of state. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired Florida for the young United States, secured a western boundary extending to the Pacific, and bolstered the nation's position internationally. As William Weeks persuasively argues, the document also represented the first determined step in the creation of an American global empire. Weeks follows the course of the often labyrinthine negotiations by which Adams wrested the treaty from a recalcitrant Spain. The task required all of Adams's skill in diplomacy, for he faced a tangled skein of domestic and international controversies when he became secretary of state in 1817. The final document provided the United States commercial access to the Orient--a major objective of the Monroe administration that paved the way for the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. Adams, the son of a president and later himself president, saw himself as destined to play a crucial role in the growth and development of the United States. In this he succeeded. Yet his legendary statecraft proved bittersweet. Adams came to repudiate the slave society whose interests he had served by acquiring Florida, he was disgusted by the rapacity of the Jacksonians, and he experienced profound guilt over his own moral transgressions while secretary of state. In the end, Adams understood that great virtue cannot coexist with great power. Weeks's book, drawn in part from articles that won the Stuart Bernath Prize, makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and adds significantly to our picture of one of the nation's most important statesmen.

LC Classification NumberF314.W44