John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire

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Label

John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire

Creator

• Weeks, William Earl, 1957-

Subject

• Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
• Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
• Adams, | 1767-1848
• Adams-Onís Treaty (1819 February 22)
• Adams-Onís Treaty, (1819 February 22)
• Diplomatic relations
• Florida
• Florida -- History -- Cession to the United States, 1819
• Florida | History | Cession to the United States, 1819
• Geschichte | 1817-1819
• 1819
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | General
• History
• Spain
• Spain -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Spain | Foreign | United States
• Spain | Treaties, | United | 1819 Feb. 22
• United States
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Spain
• United | Foreign | Spain
• HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

This is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The man was John Quincy Adams, regarded by most historians as America's greatest secretary of state. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired Florida for the young United States, secured a western boundary extending to the Pacific, and bolstered the nation's position internationally. As William Weeks persuasively argues, the document also represented the first determined step in the creation of an American global empire. Weeks follows the course of the often labyrinthine negotiations by

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

973.55092

Index

index present

LC call number

F314

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography