Divided Union by Scott A. Silverstone - 9780801442308

Divided UnionThe Politics of War in the Early American Republic\nAuthor(s): Scott A. Silverstone\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801442308, 978-0801442308\nSynopsis\nBetween the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, the United States was embroiled in competitive inter-state politics. Although it did not directly involve itself in European affairs, the United States did engage regularly in dangerous struggles with other states and with colonial powers with territory on the American periphery. Aside from the War of 1812, the Oregon Crisis, and the Mexican War, other \""near misses\"" included heredisputes of 1807 and 1809 with Britain, with Spain over East Florida in [tel], with Mexico in 1853, and disputes with Spain over Cuba in [tel] and with Mexico in [tel]have been ignored in the democratic peace literature. Scott A. Silverstone finds these cases particularly useful for testing alternative explanat.