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Record Nr.

UNISA996247896403316

Autore

Gilbert Felix <1905-1991>

Titolo

To the Farewell Address : Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy / / Felix Gilbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2009]

©1961

ISBN

1-4008-1896-6

1-282-44931-1

9786612449314

1-4008-2019-7

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

United States Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Princeton University Press E-Book"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Foreword -- Contents -- CHAPTER I. THE COLONIES AND EUROPE -- CHAPTER II. INSULA FORTUNATA: The English Pattern for American Foreign Policy -- CHAPTER III. NOVUS ORDO SECULORUM: Enlightenment Ideas on Diplomacy -- CHAPTER IV. RATIO STATUS: Foreign Policy in 44 Practice -- CHAPTER V. WASHINGTON'S POLITICAL TESTAMENT: The Farewell Address -- Appendix -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Washington's Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and of power politics, America has wavered in her foreign policy between Idealism and Realism, and her great historical moments have occurred when both were combined. Thus the history of the Farwell Address forms only part of the wider, endless, urgent problem. Felix Gilbert analyzes the diverse intellectual trends which went into the making of the Farwell Address, and sheds



light on its beginnings.