Rakestraw, Donald A.
For Honor or Destiny

The Anglo-American Crisis over the Oregon Territory.

A comprehensive diplomatic history of the controversy of the 1840s about the Northwest boundary, investigating all pertinent documents in Washington and London, also providing some analysis of the resolution of that controversy within the broader context of a developing Anglo-American rapprochement. The dispute over the Pacific northwest had stubbornly traversed five decades; every attempt at resolution was foiled. When the conflict was set aside by an exhausted Lord Ashburton in 1842, the stage was set for an Anglo-American diplomatic crisis that allowed the intangibles of British national honor and American manifest destiny to breech a fragile rapprochement and provoke talk of war. Fortunately, the realization of mutual interests and astute diplomacy intervened to produce the Oregon Treaty of 1846. XII,240 Seiten mit 14 Tafeln und 5 Karten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; vol. 160/Peter Lang Verlag 1995) Mängelexemplar/near mint