American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood

by James E. Lewis Jr.

In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American
ideas about and concern for the union of the states in the
policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the
nation's founding in the 1780s, he says, this focus on securing a
union operated to blur the line between foreign policies and
domestic concerns. Such leading policymakers as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Henry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847364
• ISBN13: 9780807847367
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"