The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America by Jay Sexton

The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America

Jay Sexton

304 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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President James Monroe’s 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe’s message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it...

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