John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 588 pages. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. Boards weakened and restrengthened with glue. Part of DJ pasted on an end page. Maps (one folding). Footnotes. Index. Includes Preface, as well as chapters on Son of the American Revolution; The French Revolution and Jay's Treaty with Great Britain; At the Hague Listening-Post; London Interlude; The Mission to Prussia; The Young Senator and the Louisiana Purchase; Politics Stops at the Water's Edge; At the Court of the Czar; The War of 1812; The Peace of Ghent; Minister to Great Britain; The Department of State; The Foreign Service Abroad and the Diplomatic Corps at Washington; Issues with England: The Treaty of 1818; The Florida Question; The Transcontinental Treaty with Span; The Independence of Latin America; John Quincy Adams and the Background of the Monroe Doctrine; President Monroe's Message of December 2, 1823; The Slave Trade and Slavery; The Freedom of the Seas and the Abolition of Private Warfare on the Ocean; Equality of Commercial Opportunity; The Northeast Boundary Question; The North West Coast; The Oregon Question; President Adams, Henry Clay, and Latin America; The Foundations of American Foreign Policy. Also contains 4 appendixes (John Quincy Adams's Accounts of His Break with the Federalists; Text of John Quincy Adams's Supplementary Instructions to Richard Rush, December 8, 1823; John Quincy Adam's Project of a Convention for Regulating the Principles of Commercial and Maritime Neutrality; Lord Ashburton, Daniel Webster, and Jared Sparks, 1842. More