{"product_id":"union-nation-or-empire-the-american-debate-over-international-relations-17891941-american-political-thought-9780700616329","title":"Union  Nation  or Empire: The American Debate over International Relations  1789-1941 (American Political Thought)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost overviews of American history depict an isolationist country finally dragged kicking and screaming onto the world stage by the attack on Pearl Harbor. David Hendrickson shows that Americans instead conducted often-raucous debates over international relations in the long epoch customarily seen as isolationist-debates that form the ideological origins of todays foreign policy arguments.  Union  Nation  or Empire is a sequel to Hendricksons acclaimed Peace Pact  in which he identified a \"unionist paradigm\" that defined Americas political understanding in 1787. His new book examines how that paradigm was transformed under the impact of the great wars that followed. Through skillfully drawn portraits of American statesmen  from Hamilton and Jefferson to Wilson and the two Roosevelts  Hendrickson reveals \"union  nation  and empire\" as fundamental categories of political discourse that have shaped our engagement with the world since 1776.  Hendrickson argues that the ongoing debate over union  nation  and empire in American history encompasses and illuminates the great questions of international relationssuch as whether democracies are as prone to war as monarchies  whether trade promotes peace  or whether empire is compatible with free institutions. Setting these debates in the context of historical events  from the birth of our federal government to Americas entry into World War II  he shows the significance of the federal union in our history and demonstrates that internationalism has deep roots in Americas past. His assessment of the unionist tradition  in counterpoint to rival ideologies of nationalism and imperialism  includes new insights into the causes of the Civil War and shows how after that conflict the building blocks of the original paradigm were reconstructed to shape the internationalist persuasion in the twentieth century.  Deftly combining intellectual  constitutional  and diplomatic history  this gracefully written work revives the compelling rhetoric of yesterdays statesmen to offer readers a lucid narrative of American international thought. It challenges accepted interpretations of our role in the world as it restores the federal union to its proper place in the understanding of American statecraft.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598726692917,"sku":"ByrdShop_0700616322","price":34.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700616329.jpg?v=1790929958","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/union-nation-or-empire-the-american-debate-over-international-relations-17891941-american-political-thought-9780700616329","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}