To the Farewell Address
Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2009
181 pages
978-1-4008-2019-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Felix Gilbert, a professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, is also the author of Machiavelli and Guicciardini, editor of Hitler Directs His War, and coeditor of The Diplomats.
Content
FrontMatter, pg. i
Foreword, pg. v
Contents, pg. vii
CHAPTER I. THE COLONIES AND EUROPE, pg. 1
CHAPTER II. INSULA FORTUNATA: The English Pattern for American Foreign Policy, pg. 19
CHAPTER III. NOVUS ORDO SECULORUM: Enlightenment Ideas on Diplomacy, pg. 44
CHAPTER IV. RATIO STATUS: Foreign Policy in 44 Practice, pg. 76
CHAPTER V. WASHINGTON'S POLITICAL TESTAMENT: The Farewell Address, pg. 115
Appendix, pg. 137
Bibliographical Essay, pg. 149
Index, pg. 171
Foreword, pg. v
Contents, pg. vii
CHAPTER I. THE COLONIES AND EUROPE, pg. 1
CHAPTER II. INSULA FORTUNATA: The English Pattern for American Foreign Policy, pg. 19
CHAPTER III. NOVUS ORDO SECULORUM: Enlightenment Ideas on Diplomacy, pg. 44
CHAPTER IV. RATIO STATUS: Foreign Policy in 44 Practice, pg. 76
CHAPTER V. WASHINGTON'S POLITICAL TESTAMENT: The Farewell Address, pg. 115
Appendix, pg. 137
Bibliographical Essay, pg. 149
Index, pg. 171
