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• catalog abstract "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 rapacity of the Jacksonians, and he experienced profound guilt over his own moral transgressions while secretary of state. In the end, Adams understood that great virtue cannot coexist with great power. Weeks's book, drawn in part from articles that won the Stuart Bernath Prize, makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and adds significantly to our picture of one of the nation's most important statesmen.".
• catalog alternative "John Quincy Adams & American global empire".
• catalog contributor b3561812.
• catalog coverage "Florida History Cession to the United States, 1819.".
• catalog coverage "Spain Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Spain.".
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "1. Destiny -- 2. Developing a Strategy -- 3. First Moves -- 4. "The South American Question" -- 5. Jackson's Invasion of Florida -- 6. Onis Brought to a Point -- 7. The Origins of Empire -- Epilogue: The American Cicero.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "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 rapacity of the Jacksonians, and he experienced profound guilt over his own moral transgressions while secretary of state. In the end, Adams understood that great virtue cannot coexist with great power. Weeks's book, drawn in part from articles that won the Stuart Bernath Prize, makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and adds significantly to our picture of one of the nation's most important statesmen.".
• catalog extent "ix, 238 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "John Quincy Adams and American global empire.".
• catalog identifier "0813117798".
• catalog isFormatOf "John Quincy Adams and American global empire.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,".
• catalog relation "John Quincy Adams and American global empire.".
• catalog spatial "Florida History Cession to the United States, 1819.".
• catalog spatial "Spain Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Spain.".
• catalog subject "973.5/5/092 20".
• catalog subject "Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.".
• catalog subject "F314 .W44 1992".
• catalog subject "Spain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1819 February 22.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Destiny -- 2. Developing a Strategy -- 3. First Moves -- 4. "The South American Question" -- 5. Jackson's Invasion of Florida -- 6. Onis Brought to a Point -- 7. The Origins of Empire -- Epilogue: The American Cicero.".
• catalog title "John Quincy Adams & American global empire".
• catalog title "John Quincy Adams and American global empire / William Earl Weeks.".
• catalog type "text".