Global Environmental Politics or Henry Adams

Global Environmental Politics

Author: David L Downi

When Global Environmental Politics was first published, the environment was just emerging as a pivotal issue in traditional international relations. Today, the environment is considered to be a central topic to discussions of international politics, political economy, international organization, and the relationship between foreign and domestic policy. With new and updated case studies throughout, a revised chapter on improving compliance with international environmental regimes, and a new section on environment within the larger context of sustainable development, this classic text is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of international environmental politics on the market. In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualize key topics such as the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Kyoto Protocol, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, international forest policy, and the trade, development and environment nexus. Environmental concerns from global warming to biodiversity loss to whaling are seen as challenges to transnational relations, with governments, NGOs, IGOs, and MNCs all involved in the multilateral interaction that is necessary to address the ever-complicated subject of global environmental politics.

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Henry Adams: History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (Library of America), Vol. 1

Author: Henry Adams

This monumental work, complete in two volumes, culminated Henry Adams' lifelong fascination with the American past. First published in nine volumes from 1889-91, it has been judged one of the greatest historical works in English -- and yet has been out of print for several decades. Adams' History traces the formative period of American nationality from the rise of Thomas Jefferson's Republican party through the War of 1812. Hoping to keep the United States out of Europe's Napoleonic wars, Jefferson's pacificism instead antagonizes both France and England, the two greatest military powers in the world. While the states threaten to duplicate the map of Europe by dissolving into separate, squabbling sections, Madison leads the country into a war with British regulars and Indian tribes that he is illequipped to fight. Yet time is on the side of the American people -- who, despite statesmen and generals, emerge from the conflict a single nation ready to flex its burgeoning muscles. In Adams' ironic narrative, personalities like Bonaparte and Aaron Burr, William "Tippecanoe" Harrison and Andrew Jackson, Shawnee leader Tecumseh and Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture act their glittering parts against a background of inexorable historical forces that transform the United States from a pre-industrial backwater into an emergent world power.

In this first volume, Jefferson's optimistic laissez-faire principles -- designed to prevent American government from becoming a militaristic European "tyranny" -- clash with the realities of European war and American security. The party of small government presides over the Louisiana Purchase, the most extensive use of executive power the country had yet seen. Jefferson's embargo -- a high-minded effort at peaceable coercion -- breeds corruption and smuggling, and the former defender of states' rights is forced to use federal power to suppress them. The passion for peace and liberty pushes the country toward war. In the center of these ironic reversals, played out in a Washington full of diplomatic intrigue, is the complex figure of Jefferson himself, part tragic visionary, part comic mock-hero. Like his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, he is swept into power by the rising tide of democratic nationalism; unlike Bonaparte, he tries to avert the consequences of the wolfish struggle for power among nation-states.

The grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, Adams gained access to hitherto secret archives in Europe. The diplomatic documents that lace the history lend a novelistic intimacy to scenes such as Jefferson's conscientious introduction of democratic table manners into stuffily aristocratic state dinner parties. Written in a strong, lively style pointed with Adams' wit, the History chronicles the consolidation of American character, and poses questions about the future course of democracy.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1
I.	Physical and Economical Conditions	5
II.	Popular Characteristics	31
III.	Intellect of New England	54
IV.	Intellect of the Middle States	76
V.	Intellect of the Southern States	91
VI.	American Ideals	107
VII.	The Inauguration	126
VIII.	Organization	148
IX.	The Annual Message	169
X.	Legislation	180
XI.	The Judiciary Debate	193
XII.	Personalities	209
XIII.	The Spanish Court	227
XIV.	The Retrocession	238
XV.	Toussaint Louverture	255
XVI.	Closure of the Mississippi	269
XVII.	Monroe's Mission	285
Volume 2
I.	Rupture of the Peace of Amiens	301
II.	The Louisiana Treaty	319
III.	Claim to West Florida	336
IV.	Constitutional Difficulties	352
V.	The Louisiana Debate	366
VI.	Louisiana Legislation	380
VII.	Impeachments	393
VIII.	Conspiracy	409
IX.	The Yazoo Claims	431
X.	Trial of Justice Chase	449
XI.	Quarrel with Yrujo	467
XII.	Pinckney's Diplomacy	480
XIII.	Monroe and Talleyrand	496
XIV.	Relations with England	516
XV.	Cordiality with England	533
XVI.	Anthony Merry	546
XVII.	Jefferson's Enemies	567
XVIII.	England and Tripoli	581
	Maps
	The States of North Africa	166
	The Coast of West Florida and Louisiana	302