The Grant administration and the Pacific Islands, 1869-1877
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1972
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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The Grant administration played a significant role in providing a basis for an active interest in the Islands. Its record in the year 1869 to 1877 therefore warrants closer investigation. In tracing the emergence of a foreign policy in American relations with the Pacific Islands there is some attention to be paid to what has come to be a major debating point in the discussion of motives behind foreign policy. This concerns the idea of recent authors, such as W illiam A. Williams, that it was perceived national economic interests that determined the type of foreign policy pursued by the United States in this and other periods. Williams does not deny the existence of political and strategic considerations but insists that these were dependent upon economic motives. In his view America would seek political predominance in Hawaii, for instance, only to assist economic interests. Likewise, he explains expressions of strategic interest as a response to the need to defend the economic stake. Whether or not this does anything to explain United States official interest in the Pacific Islands in the years of the Grant administration can be decided only from a close examination of the evidence.
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Politics and government, International relations, United States--Politics and government--1869-1877., United States--Foreign relations--Oceania., Oceania--Foreign relations--United States., United States--Foreign relations--Hawaii., Hawaii--Foreign relations--United States.
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Hawaii
Oceania
United States
Oceania
United States
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Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). History
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