TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weeks,William Earl
TI  - John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
SN  - 9780813148373
AV  - F314 .J646 1992
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Adams-Onís Treaty
KW  - (1819 February 22)
KW  - Adams
KW  - 1767-1848
KW  - Florida
KW  - History
KW  - Cession to the United States, 1819
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - 1817-1819
KW  - Spain
KW  - Foreign
KW  - United States
KW  - Treaties
KW  - United
KW  - 1819 Feb. 22
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Destiny; TWO: Developing a Strategy; THREE: First Moves; FOUR: ""The South American Question""; FIVE: Jackson's Invasion of Florida; SIX: Onis Brought to a Point; SEVEN: The Origins of Empire; Epilogue: The American Cicero; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - This is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The man was John Quincy Adams, regarded by most historians as America's greatest secretary of state. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired Florida for the young United States, secured a western boundary extending to the Pacific, and bolstered the nation's position internationally. As William Weeks persuasively argues, the document also represented the first determined step in the creation of an American global empire. Weeks follows the course of the often labyrinthine negotiations by
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