Free From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 by George C. Herring

and U.S. Foreign Policy
(New Haven, Conn., 1987), 19–45.

5 . David Healy,
U.S. Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s
(Madison, Wisc., 1970), 39.

6 . Felix Gilbert,
The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy: To the Farewell Address
(New York, 1965), 44–75.

7 . Quoted in Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas Onuf,
Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolution
(Madison, Wisc., 1993), 139.

8 . Quoted in Gilbert,
American Foreign Policy,
72.

9 . Richard Van Alstyne,
Empire and Independence: The International History of the American Revolution
(New York, 1965), 4.

10 . Ronald Reagan,
An American Life
(New York, 1990), 296.

13 . Hunt,
Ideology,
46–91.

14 . Quoted in William M. LeoGrande,
Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1959–1980
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1998), 551.

15 . Quoted in Steven Walt,
Taming American Power: The Global Response to American Primacy
(New York, 2005), 39.

16 . Fredrik Logevall,
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
(Berkeley, Calif., 1999), 384. See also Logevall, "A Critique of Containment,"
Diplomatic History
28 (September 2004), 488.

17 . Melvin Small,
Democracy and Diplomacy: The Impact of Domestic Politics on Foreign Policy
(Baltimore, Md., 1996), xi.

18 . D. W. Brogan,
The American Character
(New York, 1956), 207–8.

19 . Steven Walt, "Taming American Power,"
Foreign Affairs
(September/October 2005), 105–20, and
Taming American Power,
109–79

1 . Thomas P. Slaughter, ed.,
Common Sense and Related Writings
(Boston, 2001), 89, 90, 93.

2 . Ibid., 113; Felix Gilbert,
The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy: To the Farewell Address
(New York, 1965), 37–43. See also David W. Fitzsimons, "Thomas Paine's New World Order: Idealistic Internationalism in the Ideology of Early American Foreign Policy,"
Diplomatic History
19 (Fall 1995), 574–78.

3 . Max Savelle,
The Origins of American Diplomacy: The International History of Anglo-America
(New York, 1967), 540–44.

4 . Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, eds.,
Peace and the Peacemakers: The Treaty of 1783
(Charlottesville, Va., 1986), ix–xii.

5 . Paul Kennedy,
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
(New York, 1987), 73.

6 . Fred Anderson,
The War That Made America
(New York, 2005).

8 . Jack N. Rakove,
The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress
(New York, 1997), 93.

9 . Peter S. Onuf, "The Declaration of Independence for Diplomatic Historians,"
Diplomatic History
22 (Winter 1998), 71.

10 . William Earl Weeks,
Building the Continental Empire: American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War
(Chicago, 1996), 10–11.

11 . Gilbert,
Beginnings,
32–43. The Paine quote is from p. 43.

13 . Peter S. Onuf,
Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
(Charlottesville, Va., 2000), 2, 25, 57; Gilbert,
Beginnings,
55.

14 . Gilbert,
Beginnings,
56.

15 . Orville T. Murphy, "The View from Versailles: Charles Gravier Comte de Vergennes's Perceptions of the American Revolution," in Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, eds.,
Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778
(Charlottesville, Va., 1981), 110.

16 . William Howard Adams,
The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson
(New Haven, Conn., 1997), 185; Murphy, "View from Versailles," 110.

17 . Richard W. Van Alstyne,
Empire and Independence: The International History of the American Revolution
(New York, 1965), 104–5.

18 . Ibid., 100; Jonathan R. Dull,
A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution
(New Haven, Conn., 1997), 185.

19 . Rakove,
Beginnings,
249.

20 . Gordon S. Wood,
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
(New York, 2004), 177.

22 . Stacy Schiff,
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
(New York, 2005), 68.

24 . Dull,
Diplomatic History
, 89–96, and Van Alstyne,
Empire and Independence,
131–33, give less significance to Saratoga in the origins of the alliance.

25 . Van Alstyne,
Empire and