Table of Contents:
“…Colonial backgrounds -- The diplomacy of the French alliance, 1775-1778 -- European diplomacy and peace with Britain, 1778-1783 -- Foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation -- Embroilments with Britain, 1789-1795 -- Alliance and misalliance with France, 1789-1800 -- Jefferson and the purchase of Louisiana, 1801-1803 -- Jefferson and neutrality, 1803-1809 -- Drifting into war with Great Britain, 1809-1812 -- The Peace of Ghent and after, 1812-1818 -- The United States and the Floridas, 1803-1821 -- Europe, America, and the Monroe Doctrine, 1815-1825 -- Signs and portents, 1825-1840 -- Anglo-American relations and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty -- The Oregon dispute and its settlement -- The annexation of Texas, 1821-1845 -- War and peace with Mexico, 1846-1848 -- The fitful fifties -- The United States and Cuba to 1860 -- The dawn of Asiatic interests -- Civil War diplomacy : first phase, 1861 -- Civil War diplomacy, 1862-1865 -- France and Maximilian's Mexican empire, 1861-1867 -- Postwar expansion, 1865-1867 -- Anglo-American relations and the Grant administration -- The nadir of diplomacy, 1877-1889 -- Blaine and spirited diplomacy, 1889-1893 -- Samoa and Hawaii : imperialistic beginnings -- Cleveland and the Venezuela crisis with Great Britain -- The coming of the war with Spain, 1895-1898 -- The United States as a world power, 1898-1900 -- Acquiring the Panama Canal Zone, 1900-1903 -- Theodore Roosevelt and big stick diplomacy, 1901-1906 -- Theodore Roosevelt and Japanese-American relations -- Taft and dollar diplomacy -- Wilson and the new diplomacy, 1913-1917 -- World War neutrality : first phase, 1914-1915 -- World War neutrality : second phase, 1915-1917 -- The peace of Versailles, 1918-1919 -- The fight for the treaty in America, 1919-1920 -- Harding and the Washington conference -- Coolidge and the diplomacy of prosperity, 1923-1929 -- Hoover and the diplomacy of depression, 1929-1933 -- Franklin D. …”