Borderlines in Borderlands: James Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1821

by J.C.A. Stagg

Book Overview

In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have assumed Madison's motive in sending agents into the Spanish borderlands between 1810 and 1813 was to subvert Spanish rule, but J. C. A. Stagg argues that his real intent was to find peaceful and legal resolutions to long-standing disputes over the boundaries of Louisiana...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300205546
• ISBN13: 9780300205541
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"