Borderlines in borderlands
Subtitle: James Madison and the Spanish-American frontier, 1776-1821
By: J.C.A. Stagg.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780300139051
Subjects: Madison, James, -- 1751-1836 -- Political and social views; Spain; Southern boundary of the United States -- History -- 18th century; Southern boundary of the United States -- History -- 19th century; East Florida -- History; West Florida -- History; Texas -- History -- To 1846; United States -- Territorial expansion; United States -- Foreign relations -- Spain; Spain -- Foreign relations -- United States
Description: "In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have assumed Madison's motive in sending agents into the Spanish borderlands between 1810 and 1813 was to subvert Spanish rule, but J. C. A. Stagg argues that his real intent was to find peaceful and legal resolutions to long-standing disputes over the boundaries of Louisiana at a time when the Spanish-American empire was in the process of dissolution. Drawing on an array of American, British, French, and Spanish sources, the author describes how a myriad cast of local leaders, officials, and other small players affected the borderlands diplomacy between the United States and Spain, and he casts new light on Madison's contribution to early American expansionism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A troublesome neighbor; title: West Florida; title: East Florida; title: Texas; title: Toward the Transcontinental Treaty.