(Hardback)

A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises - not unlike those of the present day - have determined our nation's course from the start

(Paperback)

President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. This book focuses on the paradox at the centre of American diplomatic history: the nation's interdependent traditions of anticolonialism and imperialism.