University Press of Kentucky, Date: 2002-10-25. paperback. Good. 6x0x9. 2002. University Press of Kentucky ISBN 0813190584 9780813190587 [US]

University Press of Kentucky. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. University Press of Kentucky ISBN 0813190584 9780813190587 [US]

ISBN10: 0813190584, ISBN13: 9780813190587, [publisher: UNIV PR OF KENTUCKY] Softcover Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 252 | Sprache: Englisch
[Trebbin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2002]

The University Press of Kentucky, Date: 2002-10-25. Paperback. Used:Good. 2002. The University Press of Kentucky ISBN 0813190584 9780813190587 [US]

ISBN10: 0813190584, ISBN13: 9780813190587, [publisher: The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington] Softcover Paperback. This 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 ...