{"product_id":"american-union-and-the-problem-of-neighborhood-9780807847367","title":"American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood","description":"In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American\u003cbr\u003eideas about and concern for the union of the states in the\u003cbr\u003epolicymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the\u003cbr\u003enation's founding in the 1780s, he says, this focus on securing a\u003cbr\u003eunion operated to blur the line between foreign policies and\u003cbr\u003edomestic concerns. Such leading policymakers as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay worried about the challenges to the goals of the Revolution that would arise from a hostile neighborhood--whether composed of new nations outside the union or the existing states following a division of the union. \u003cbr\u003e At the center of Lewis's story is the American response to\u003cbr\u003ethe dissolution of Spain's empire in the New World, from the\u003cbr\u003etransfer of Louisiana to France in 1800 to the independence of\u003cbr\u003eSpain's mainland colonies in the 1820s. The breakup of the\u003cbr\u003eSpanish empire, he argues, presented a series of crises for the\u003cbr\u003eunionist logic of American policymakers, leading them, finally, \u003cbr\u003eto abandon a crucial element of the distinctly American approach\u003cbr\u003eto international relations embodied in their own federal union. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James E. Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.22w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807847367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames E. Lewis Jr. is assistant professor of history at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161647132787,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":38.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8ccef352-1bb2-4e55-aabe-1f50e236ba0c.jpg?v=1654955587","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/american-union-and-the-problem-of-neighborhood-9780807847367","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}