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- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- 9 The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783–1900
- 10 The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919
- 11 The United States and Global Capitalism
- 12 Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition
- 13 The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900
- 14 Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century
- 15 The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
10 - The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919
from Part II - Imperial Structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- 9 The US Fiscal-Military State and the Conquest of a Continent, 1783–1900
- 10 The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819–1919
- 11 The United States and Global Capitalism
- 12 Making the First International: Nineteenth-Century Regimes of Surveillance, Accumulation, Resistance, and Abolition
- 13 The Military and US Engagements with the World, 1865–1900
- 14 Technology and US Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century
- 15 The Environment, the United States, and the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
Summary
As President James Monroe’s secretary of state, John Quincy Adams spent most of 1819 elucidating all the ways in which US dealings with Spain over Florida proved America’s commitment “to observe toward Spain, and all other nations, a just and candid, and single-hearted course of conduct, free from fraud, artifice, or disguise.” Surprising both friends and critics, Adams defended General Andrew Jackson’s controversial 1818 invasion of Florida – and execution of two British subjects thought to be aiding Native Americans in the area – as a vindication of principles “written in every page of the law of nations, as well as in the first law of nature, self defense.”
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 246 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022