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To the Farewell address : ideas of early American foreign policy / by Felix Gilbert.

By: Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1961]Description: 173 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691005745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1 23 G464
Online resources:
Contents:
The colonies and Europe -- Insula fortunata: the English pattern for American foreign policy -- Novus ordo seculorum: Enlightenment ideas on diplomacy -- Ratio status: foreign policy in practice -- Washington's political testament: the Farewell address.
Awards:
  • Bancroft Prize, 1962.
Summary: "Washington's Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and of power politics, America has wavered in her foreign policy between Idealism and Realism, and her great historical moments have occurred when both were combined. Thus the history of the Farwell Address forms only part of the wider, endless, urgent problem. Felix Gilbert analyzes the diverse intellectual trends which went into the making of the Farwell Address, and sheds light on its beginnings."--Publisher's description.
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كتاب كتاب Central Library المكتبة المركزية 327.1 G464 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available قاعة الكتب 14526

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The colonies and Europe -- Insula fortunata: the English pattern for American foreign policy -- Novus ordo seculorum: Enlightenment ideas on diplomacy -- Ratio status: foreign policy in practice -- Washington's political testament: the Farewell address.

"Washington's Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and of power politics, America has wavered in her foreign policy between Idealism and Realism, and her great historical moments have occurred when both were combined. Thus the history of the Farwell Address forms only part of the wider, endless, urgent problem. Felix Gilbert analyzes the diverse intellectual trends which went into the making of the Farwell Address, and sheds light on its beginnings."--Publisher's description.

Bancroft Prize, 1962.