For Honor or Destiny
The Anglo-American Crisis over the Oregon Territory
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" cried western politicos and American settlers in the 1840s as they gazed anxiously from south of the Columbia river while waiting for the diplomats in Washington and London to determine the fate of the Oregon Territory. The...
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"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" cried western politicos and American settlers in the 1840s as they gazed anxiously from south of the Columbia river while waiting for the diplomats in Washington and London to determine the fate of the Oregon Territory. The dispute over the Pacific northwest with its natural harbors and its approach to Pacific commerce had stubbornly traversed five decades; every attempt at resolution was foiled. When the conflict was set aside by an exhausted Lord Ashburton in 1842, the stage was set for an Anglo-American diplomatic crisis that allowed the intangibles of British national honor and American manifest destiny to breech a fragile rapprochement and provoke talk of war. Fortunately, the realization of mutual interests and astute eleventh-hour diplomacy intervened to produce the Oregon Treaty of 1846.
Autoren-Porträt von Donald A. Rakestraw
The Author: Donald A. Rakestraw is an assistant professor of U.S. Diplomatic History at Georgia Southern University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in 1991. In addition to publishing a number of articles in professional journals, he has been invited to lecture on Anglo-American relations in both the United States and the United Kingdom and is currently at work on a study of African-American diplomats.
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- Autor: Donald A. Rakestraw
- 1995, Neuausg., 256 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,6 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- ISBN-10: 0820424544
- ISBN-13: 9780820424545
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.1995
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Englisch
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"A model diplomatic history that interweaves domestic and foreign policy in a sprightly written narrative ...the first monographic treatment of the Oregon crisis and as close to a definitive study as we will have." (Howard Jones, The University of Alabama)Kommentar zu "For Honor or Destiny"
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