Entangling Alliances with None: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson PDF
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ENTANGLING ALLIANCES WITH NONE Most ofthe articles in thiscollectionhaveappeared first inother publications. I wouldliketothanktherespectiveauthorsand publishersforpermissiontoreprint them here. "Thomas Jefferson: The Idealist as Realist,"from F. Merli and T. Wilson, eds., MakersofAmericanDiplomacy(NewYork:CharlesScribner'sSons,1974),53-79. "ReflectionsonJeffersonasaFrancophile,"South AtlanticQuarterly79(Winter 1980): 38-50. Copyright 1979by Duke University Press. "TheFoundingFathersandtheTwoConfederations:TheUnitedStatesofAmer icaand the United Provinces ofthe Netherlands, 1783-1789,"from J. W. Schulte Nordholtand RobertP. Swierenga,eds., A BilateralBicentennial(NewYork:Oc tagon Books, 1982),33-48. "TheNeocolonialImpulse:TheUnitedStatesandGreatBritain,1783-1823,"from Morrell Healdand Lawrence S. Kaplan, CultureandDiplomacy: The American Experience(Westport,Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1977),46-65. Copyright 1977by Morrell Healdand Lawrence S. Kaplan. "The Consensus of 1789:Jeffersonand Hamilton on American Foreign Policy," SouthAtlanticQuarterly71 (Jan. 1972):91-105.Copyright 1972byDuke Univer sityPress. "TowardIsolationism:TheRiseand FalloftheFranco-AmericanAlliance, 1775 1801,"from Lawrence S. Kaplan, ed., The American Revolutionanda"Candid World"(Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 1977), 134-60. "Jefferson'sForeignPolicyandNapoleon'sIdeologues,"WilliamandMaryQuar terly 19(July 1962): 344-59. "Jefferson, the Napoleonic Wars, and the BalanceofPower," William andMary Quarterly 14(April 1957): 196-218. "Franceand Madison'sDecisionforWar, 1812,"Mississippi Valley HistoricalRe view50(Mar. 1964):652-71. "FranceandtheWarof1812,"JournalofAmericanHistory57(June1970):36-47. "The Paris MissionofWilliam HarrisCrawford, 1813-1815," Georgia Historical Quarterly60(Spring 1975):9-23. "TheIndependenceofLatinAmerica: NorthAmericanAmbivalence, 1800-1820," from Healdand Kaplan, CultureandDiplomacy, 66-91. "FoundingFathersontheFoundingFathers:ReflectionsonThreeGenerationsof AmericanDiplomaticHistorians,"fromSocietyfor HistoriansofAmericanFor eign Relations, Newsletter6, no. 4(Dec. 1975): 1-8. ENTANGLING ALLIANCES WITH NONE AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE AGE OF JEFFERSON LAWRENCE S. KAPLAN "Peace, commerce, andhonestfriendship with allnations, entangling allianceswith none" Jefferson's First Inaugural Address 4 March 1801 THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS KENT. OHIO AND LONDON. ENGLAND ©1987byTheKentStateUniversityPress,Kent, Ohio44242 Allrightsreserved LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber86-27840 ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ISBN0-87338-336-2 ISBN0-87338-347-8 (pbk.) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Kaplan,LawrenceS. "Entanglingallianceswithnone". Bibliography. p. Includesindex. 1. UnitedStates- Foreignrelations-1783-1815. 2.UnitedStates- Foreign relations-Revolution,1775-1783. 3. Jefferson,Thomas,1743-1826-Viewson internationalrelations. I. Title. E31O.7.K37 1987 327.73 86-27840 ISBN0-87338-336-2(alk. paper) 00 ISBN0-87338-347-8(pbk. :alk. paper) 00 BritishLibraryCataloginginPublicationdataareavailable. In memoryofAlbert Hall Bowman Jeffersonian CONTENTS PREFACE IX INTRODUCTION Xl PART ONE. JEFFERSONIAN BACKGROUND I. ThomasJefferson: The Idealistas Realist 3 2. ReflectionsonJeffersonasa Francophile 24 3. The Founding Fathersand the TwoConfederations: The United States ofAmericaand the United Provinces ofthe Netherlands, 1783-1789 35 PARTTWO. FEDERALIST FOUNDATIONS 4. The Neocolonial Impulse: The United Statesand Great Britain, 1783-1823 51 5. The Consensusof 1789:Jeffersonand Hamilton on American Foreign Policy 67 6. Toward Isolationism: The Riseand Fall ofthe Franco American Alliance, 1775-180I 79 PARTTHREE. REPUBLICAN SUCCESSES AND FAILURES 7. Jefferson's Foreign Policyand Napoleon's Ideologues 99 8. Jefferson, the Napoleonic Wars,and the Balanceof Power III 9. Franceand Madison's Decision for War, 1812 127 10. Franceand the Warof1812 143 II. The Paris MissionofWilliam HarrisCrawford, 1813-1815 152 PART FOUR. TO THE MONROE DOCTRINE 12. The IndependenceofLatin America: North American Ambivalence, 1800-1820 165 PART FIVE. JEFFERSONIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY 13. Founding Fathersonthe Founding Fathers: ReflectionsonThreeGenerationsofAmerican Diplomatic Historians 187 14. Recent HistoriographicalTrends 194 NOTES 201 INDEX 224 viii PREFACE The essays and monographs included in this volume have been written overa thirty-year period and derive in spirit ifnot in content from ideas conceived and worked out in my doctoral dissertation on Jefferson and France. While many ofmy initial conceptions have been modified over time,thethemeofAmericanisolationismunderliesallthechapters. Under standing this particular species of American exceptionalism remains an inspiration in the 1980sevenas it was in the 1950s. This search began in Samuel Flagg Bemis's seminar at Yale in 1948. While its direction did not always accord with his views, Iwould like to acknowledge with appreciation his support for my studies. A number of scholarly institutions deserve my thanks. The American Council of Learned Societies granted a pre-doctoral fellowship in 1950-51. In later years the American Philosophical Society gave grants in 1967-68 and in 1969-70. As a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholarsin 1974, Ihad theequivalentofanacademicyeartoworkonthe Age ofJefferson. In bicentennial convocations in Kent, Ohio in 1976, in Washington, D.C. in 1978 and 1983, in Paris in 1978 and 1986, and in Amsterdam in 1982, I had opportunities to refine my thoughts on the subject. TwofriendsinparticulardeservemorethanthefewlinesthatIgivethem here.BobFerrellhasbeenaguideeversinceaseminarsessionin1948when hediplomaticallysuggestedthatmydescriptionofNapoleonBonaparteas "little corporal"was not only inaccurate but uninspired. Throughout, Al Bowmanhastakenthetimeandtrouble to readallmywritings. Hiscom mentary has been critical but always supportive. I want to add a special note of thanks to 80 Heald for permission to incorporate two chapters from our Culture andDiplomacyinto this volume. Iwouldliketo acknowledgealso theroleofJohn Hubbell,colleaguein theHistoryDepartmentanddirectoroftheKentStateUniversityPress,in encouraging me to publish this book. The work offlattening angularities and minimizing infelicities has beendone bymy editorat the Kent State University Press, Flo Cunningham. Thefinal typing,accompanied byfre quent helpful observations, was done by my special word processor, Marge Evans.
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