Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 1, The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 written by Bradford Perkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing American foreign relations from the colonial era to the end of the Civil war, this volume describes and explains, in the diplomatic context, the process by which the United States was born, transformed into a republican nation, and extended into a continental empire.