A diplomatic history of the American people

A Lively Survey Of American Diplomatic History -- From Early Origins To The Carter Administration. -- Provided By Publisher. Factors, Forces, And Functions -- The Colonial Backdrop -- The Diplomacy Of The French Alliance, 1775-1778 -- The Diplomacy Of Peace With Britain, 1778-1783 -- Foreign Affairs Under The Articles Of Confederation -- Embroilments With Britain, 1789-1795 -- Friction With France, 1789-1800 -- Jefferson And The Louisiana Purchase, 1801-1803 -- Jefferson And Neutral Woes, 1803-1809 -- Blundering Into War With Britain, 1809-1812 -- The Truce Of Ghent And After, 1812-1818 -- Acquiring The Floridas, 1803-1821 -- America And The Monroe Doctrine, 1815-1825 -- The Awkward Age Of Diplomacy, 1825-1840 -- Britain And The Webster-ashburton Treaty -- The Oregon Dispute And Its Settlement -- The Annexation Of Texas -- War And Peace With Mexico -- The Ferment Of The Fifties -- America And Cuba To 1860 -- The Dawn Of Asiatic Interests -- The Early Crises Of The Civil War -- The Collapse Of King Cotton Diplomacy -- Napoleon Iii And Mexico -- The Caribbean And Alaska, 1865-1867 --^ Great Britain And The Grant Era, 1865-1877 -- Diplomacy A Football Of Politics, 1877-1889 -- Blaine And Spirited Diplomacy, 1889-1893 -- Samoa And Hawaii : An Imperialistic Preview -- Anglo-american Tensions And The Venezuela Crisis -- The Coming Of The War With Spain, 1895-1898 -- America As A Great Power, 1898-1900 -- Canal Zone Diplomacy, 1900-1921 -- Big-stick Diplomacy, 1901-1909 -- Theodore Roosevelt And The Far East -- Taft And Dollar Diplomacy -- Wilson And The New Diplomacy, 1913-1917 -- Waging Neutrality, 1914-1915 -- The Road To World War I, 1915-1917 -- Negotiating The Treaty Of Versailles -- The Retreat To Isolationism, 1919-1935 -- The Far East And Disarmament, 1917-1938 -- Economic Foreign Policy Between Wars, 1919-1939 -- Good Neighbors South And North, 1917-1941 -- Japan, Neutrality, And The Dictators, 1923-1939 -- World War Ii : Through Lend Lease, 1939-1941 -- The Road To Pearl Harbor -- Diplomacy For Victory, 1941-1945 -- Founding The United Nations, 1941-1945 --^ The Rift With The Soviets, 1945-1947 -- The Cold War, 1947-1950 -- Communism And The Korean Conflict -- World Tensions And The Middle East Crisis -- The End Of The Eisenhower Era -- New Frontier Diplomacy -- The Ordeal Of Lyndon Johnson -- Nixonian Foreign Policy -- Epilogue : From Colonies To Colossus. [by] Thomas A. Bailey. Includes Bibliographies.