Steven J. Brady

Chained to History

Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An analysis of the role played by slavery in the making and execution of American foreign policy from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 230mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781501778957
• ISBN-10: 1501778951
• Artikelnr.: 71237133

Autorenporträt

Steven J. Brady is Associate Professor in the Department of History at The George Washington University. He is author of Eisenhower and Adenauer.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Speaking of Slavery
1. "Things Odious or Immoral": Britain, Spanish Florida, and Slaves
Unfettered
2. "'Tis Ill to Fear": American Responses to the Haitian Revolution
3. "Separate from Foreign Alliances": Limiting Connections and Commitments
4. "Fully Meets Its Responsibility": The Limits of American Unilateralism
5. "Only Cowards Fear and Oppose It": Texas and Cuba
6. "Its Peculiar Moral Force": Lincoln, Emancipation, and Colonization
Epilogue: American Foreign Relations Unchained