A diplomatic history of the American people / Thomas A. Bailey.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Factors, forces, and functions -- The colonial backdrop -- The diplomacy of the French alliance, 1775-1778 -- The diplomacy of peace with Britain, 1778-1783 -- Foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation -- Embroilments with Britain, 1789-1795 -- Friction with France, 1789-1800 -- Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase, 1801-1803 -- Jefferson and neutral woes, 1803-1809 -- Blundering into war with Britain, 1809-1812 -- The Truce of Ghent and after, 1812-1818 -- Acquiring the Floridas, 1803-1821 -- America and the Monroe Doctrine, 1815-1825 -- The awkward age of diplomacy, 1825-1840 --Britain and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty -- The Oregon dispute and its settlement -- The annexation of Texas -- War and peace with Mexico -- The ferment of the fifties -- America and Cuba to 1860 -- The dawn of Asiatic interests -- The early crises of the Civil War -- The collapse of King Cotton diplomacy -- Napoleon III and Mexico -- The Caribbean and Alaska, 1865-1867 -- Great Britain and the Grant era, 1865-1877 -- Diplomacy a football of politics, 1877-1889 -- Blaine and spirited diplomacy, 1889-1893 -- Samoa and Hawaii : an imperialistic preview -- Anglo-American tensions and the Venezuela crisis --

The coming of the war with Spain, 1895-1898 -- America as a great power, 1898-1900 -- Canal Zone diplomacy, 1900-1921 -- Big-stick diplomacy, 1901-1909 -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Far East -- Taft and dollar diplomacy -- Wilson and the "new" diplomacy, 1913-1917 -- Waging neutrality, 1914-1915 -- The road to World War I, 1915-1917 -- Negotiating the Treaty of Versailles -- The retreat to isolationism, 1919-1935 -- The Far East and disarmament, 1917-1938 -- Economic foreign policy between wars, 1919-1939 -- Good neighbors south and north, 1917-1941 -- Japan, neutrality, and the dictators, 1923-1939 -- World War II : through lend lease, 1939-1941 -- The road to Pearl Harbor -- Diplomacy for victory, 1941-1945 -- Founding the United Nations, 1941-1945 -- The rift with the Soviets, 1945-1947 -- The Cold War, 1947-1950 -- Communism and the Korean conflict -- World tensions and the Middle East crisis -- The end of the Eisenhower era -- New frontier diplomacy -- The ordeal of Lyndon Johnson -- Nixonian foreign policy -- The Kissinger era -- Carter and humanitarian diplomacy -- Epilogue : From colonies to Colossus.