To the Farewell Address : : Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy / / Felix Gilbert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gilbert, Felix,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (181 p.)

Washington's Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and of power politics, America has wavered in her foreign policy between Idealism and Realism, and her great historical moments have occurred when both were combined. Thus the history of the Farwell Address forms only part of the wider, endless, urgent problem. Felix Gilbert analyzes the diverse intellectual trends which went into the making of the Farwell Address, and sheds light on its beginnings.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- CHAPTER I. THE COLONIES AND EUROPE -- CHAPTER II. INSULA FORTUNATA: The English Pattern for American Foreign Policy -- CHAPTER III. NOVUS ORDO SECULORUM: Enlightenment Ideas on Diplomacy -- CHAPTER IV. RATIO STATUS: Foreign Policy in 44 Practice -- CHAPTER V. WASHINGTON'S POLITICAL TESTAMENT: The Farewell Address -- Appendix -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index