{"product_id":"american-machiavelli-alexander-hamilton-and-the-origins-of-u-s-foreign-policy-hardback-9780521834858","title":"American Machiavelli; Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardback) 9780521834858","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Machiavelli\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAlexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Lamberton Harper (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521834858, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 March 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16.1 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a decent history about the role Alexander Hamilton plated in the shaping of foreign policy of the Early American Republic … the book does help further the scholarship of the history of American foreign policy …' Political Studies Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. This is the first detailed narrative study of his foreign policy role and ideas to appear in more than thirty years. It focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as a key member of President George Washington's cabinet and as an aspiring military leader in the 1790s, a decade of profound division over the shape and powers of the Federal government, and US policy toward the warring powers of Europe. Drawing parallels between Hamilton and the Florentine diplomatist and thinker, Niccolò Machiavelli,  prize-winning historian John Lamberton Harper offers an insightful and accessible account of the origins of Hamilton's outlook, his bitterly personal rivalries with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and his indispensable part in designing and implementing US foreign policy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Coming of Necessity: 1. From providence to fortune, 1757(?)–1781\u003cbr\u003e 2. Prepared to be not good, 1781–1788\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Battle Lines are Drawn: 3. At Washington's side again, 1789\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hamilton versus the Virginians, 1789–1791\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Nootka Sound Crisis, part one: the Morris mission\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Nootka Sound Crisis, part two: Hamilton and Jefferson\u003cbr\u003e 7. Liaisons Dangereuses, 1791–1792\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Seizing the Helm: 8. The birth of American neutrality, February-May, 1793\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'A most distressing dilemma', May-December, 1793\u003cbr\u003e 10. Hamilton and the war crisis of 1794\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Jay treaty\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Informal Adviser to the Prince: 12. Return to not-so-private life, 1794–1795\u003cbr\u003e 13. 'Camillus' into the breach, 1795\u003cbr\u003e 14. A high-stakes game: Washington's farewell address, 1796\u003cbr\u003e 15. Transition to the new regime, 1796–97\u003cbr\u003e Part V. A Prince in His Own Right?: 16. Hamilton and Adams: the background\u003cbr\u003e 17. Hamilton's 'Grand Plan'\u003cbr\u003e 18. Hamilton's army, part one, 1797–1798\u003cbr\u003e 19. Hamilton's army, part two, 1798–1799\u003cbr\u003e 20. Killing two birds with one stone, 1799\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. The Lesser of Evils: 21. 1800 and after\u003cbr\u003e 22. 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