Divided Union : : The Politics of War in the Early American Republic / / Scott A. Silverstone.

Between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, the United States was embroiled in competitive inter-state politics. Although it did not directly involve itself in European affairs, the United States did engage regularly in dangerous struggles with other states and with colonial powers with territo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. Back from the Brink: Why Do States Avoid Military Conflict?
  • 2. Federal Union and Armed Conflict: Imagining a More Peace-Prone Republic
  • 3. The United States Confronts Great Britain and Spain, 1807-1815
  • 4. The Oregon Crisis of 1845-1846
  • 5. The Mexican War and Territorial Expansion
  • 6. Cuba and Mexico in the 1850s
  • 7. A Federal Democratic Peace
  • INDEX