The foundations of American foreign policy

Albert Bushnell Hart

Sujets

• Monroe Doctrine
• United States
• Foreign relations
• Boundary

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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PREFACE
does not attempt to present a sketch of the diplo-This book
matic history of the United States, nor even to describe all the
foundations which underlie the conscious or unconscious policy
of the government toward other countries. The full story of the
diplomatic relations of our country is recorded, but not yet
however, much misconceptionwritten. There is, so about the
status of the nation in the councils of the world,present and so
heedlessness of precedent and experience, thatmuch perhaps
an opportunity to show that our forefathers andthere is our
grandfathers had problems similar to our own; and to explain
how they thought that they had solved those problems. It is not
my intention to be either an advocate of any particular policy, or
a brief-holder for American diplomats ; though the most casual
reader will see that, with few reservations, I feel pride in the
purposes and results of American diplomacy. I mean simply to
set down, in a form which may bring out the relations of one
event to another, the actual history of some phases of our foreign
relations. In this normethod of treatment it is not possible, has
it been thought necessary, a thirdto avoid mentioning a second or
time episode which has already Such a crisisan been described.
as the Louisiana purchase, for instance, has its part in several
different lines of policy, and cannot be treated as a separatevi Preface
event, complete in itself. On the other hand, the book does not
purport to be a history of American diplomacy ; many contro-
areversies of great import not recorded here ; many essential
mention. All theprinciples here find no chapters of this work
founded on magazine articles due credit is given theare ; duly in
Harper'stable of contents to Magazine, the Bond Review, and
the American Historical Review, from which they have been
reprinted, with revisions, by permission of the publishers.
In preparing the bibliography which forms the last chapter of
the book, I have availed myself of the helpful criticism of several
friends and I am under especial obligation to Mr. Andrew;
Hussey Allen, of the State Department, for supplying titles of
many useful publications.
Harvard University,
October i, 1901.