Four Phases of American 

 Development 



FEDERALISM- DEMOCRACY- IMPERIALISM- EXPANSION 



By JOHN BASSETT MOORE, LL.D. 



218 Pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth. Price, $1.50 



The lectures embraced in this volume are deeigned to sketch in clear and 

 vivid outline the great movements by which the historical development of the 

 United States is distinguished and to indicate the causes to which they -were 

 due. The order in which the several topics are discussed is not intended to de- 

 note a strict chronological succession ; hence they are described as phases rather 

 than as stages of development. While federalism, democracy and imperialism 

 give a dominant impress to successive periods, yet eijjansion has characterized 

 the entire course of American history. The misapprehension so widely enter- 

 tained, that imperialism began with the war with Spain is corrected. The im- 

 perialistic tendency, observable from the beginning, is shown to have assumed 

 a specially pronounced form in the Civil War and in the measures of national 

 self-preservation to which that great conflict gave rise. 



The Diplomacy of the War of 1812 



By FRANK A. UPDYKE, Ph.D. 



504 Pages. Cloth, $2.50 



The author carefully analyzes the diplomatic correspondence in regard to 

 neutral rights and the impressment of seamen •which preceded the War of 1812. 

 The protests against interference with neutral trade made by Piesldenta Jef- 

 ferson and Madison have an unexpectedly familiar sound today. Then, as 

 now the United States was the principal neutral power in a war which in- 

 volved all Europe. The causes of the War of 1812 are clearly set forth. The 

 treaty of Ghent, the hundredth anniversary of which has recer.tly been cele- 

 brated, is the central theme of the latter half of the volume. The oegotiations 

 leading to the signing of that treaty are clearly described. The terms of the 

 treaty are examined as well as the qneationa in dispute which were omitted, 

 and which continued to disturb the relations of the two countries for many 

 yean. In the concluding chapter each of the«e disputed qne«tions is traced to 

 its final solution. 



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