Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Spirit of '76 and the Search for National Honor: The Northeastern Boundary Dispute
Chapter 2 Freedom Awakened: Remember the Caroline!
Chapter 3 Mother Country at Bay: The Strange Case of Alexander McLeod
Chapter 4 Honor at Sea or Slavery at Home? The African Slave Trade, Right of Search, and the Creole Mutiny
Chapter 5 Machiavellian Prelude to Negotations: Toward the National Interest
Chapter 6 Epilogue to the American Revolution: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty and National Honor
Chapter 7 A New and Even More Troublesome Boundary Dispute: Northwest to Oregon
Chapter 8 Rising Temperature: Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever
Chapter 9 Only at the Cannon's Mouth: Young Hickory Takes Charge
Chapter 10 From Crisis to Compromise: The Oregon Treaty

About the Author

Howard Jones is university research professor and chair of the department of history at the University of Alabama. Donald A. Rakestraw is associate professor of U.S. Diplomatic History at the Georgia Southern University.

Reviews

Jones and Rakestraw have provided a comprehensive overview and richly textured, masterful analysis of the Northeast and Northwest boundary disputes. Clearly and engagingly written . . . a magnificent scholarly achievement that undoubtedly will be acknowledged as the definitive study of Anglo-American relations in the expansionist decade of the 1840s....
*Edward P. Crapol*

This volume combines the impressive and complementary scholarship of two proven authors into a thoughtful and concise analysis of the troubling Anglo-American boundary disputes that found their resolution in the Webster-Ashburton and Oregon treaties. Therefreshing detail and sound judgments assure an enlightening diplomatic venture through this fateful age....
*Norman A. Graebner*

In an elegantly written, exquisitely detailed account of the Northeast and Northwest boundary disputes with England settled in the 1840s, Jones and Rakestraw depict the diplomacy with abundant background material and colorful descriptions of main characters....