American Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the origins of U.S. foreign policy / John Lamberton Harper.

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Harper, John Lamberton

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781107089600
1107089603
9781107326033
1107326036
9781107095953
1107095956
1107086027
9781107086029
1316086143
9781316086148
0521708745
9780521708746
1107101557
9781107101555
1107092825
9781107092822

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: American Machiavelli.DDC classification:

327.73/0092 22

LOC classification:

E302.6.H2 H37 2004eb

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15.85

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Contents:

From providence into fortune, 1757 -1781 -- Prepared to be not good, 1781-1788 -- At Washington's side again, 1789 -- Hamilton versus the Virginians, 1789-1791 -- The Nootka Sound Crisis, part one : the Morris Mission -- Nootka Sound, part two : the view from New York -- Liaisons dangereuses, 1791-1792 -- The birth of American neutrality, February-May 1793 -- "A most distressing dilemma," May-December 1793 -- Hamilton and the crisis of 1794 -- The Jay Treaty -- Return to not-so-private life, 1794-1795 -- "Camillus" into the breach -- A high-stakes game : Washington's farewell address, 1796 -- Transition to the new regime, 1796-1797 -- Hamilton and Adams : the background -- Hamilton's "grand plan" -- Hamilton and his army, part one, 1797-1798 -- Hamilton and his army, part two, 1798-1799 -- Killing two birds with one stone, 1799 -- 1800 and after -- From fortune into providence -- Conclusion : Hamilton then and now.

Review: "This book is the first detailed narrative study of his foreign policy role and ideas to appear in more than thirty years. It focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as a key member of President George Washington's cabinet and as an aspiring military leader in the 1790s, a decade of profound division over the shape and powers of the federal government and U.S. policy toward the warring powers of Europe. Drawing parallels between Hamilton and the Florentine diplomatist and thinker Nicolo Machiavelli, prize-winning historian John Lamberton Harper offers an insightful and accessible account of the origins of Hamilton's outlook, his bitter personal rivalries with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and his indispensable part in designing and implementing a foreign policy able to ensure the survival of the infant United States."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-336) and index.

"This book is the first detailed narrative study of his foreign policy role and ideas to appear in more than thirty years. It focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as a key member of President George Washington's cabinet and as an aspiring military leader in the 1790s, a decade of profound division over the shape and powers of the federal government and U.S. policy toward the warring powers of Europe. Drawing parallels between Hamilton and the Florentine diplomatist and thinker Nicolo Machiavelli, prize-winning historian John Lamberton Harper offers an insightful and accessible account of the origins of Hamilton's outlook, his bitter personal rivalries with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and his indispensable part in designing and implementing a foreign policy able to ensure the survival of the infant United States."--Jacket