{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20261010T034321Z-reviewed-full-unique-works","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0809069997?tag=bookfrontie00-20","asin":"0809069997","authors":["Jay Sexton"],"book_id":"9780809069996","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/the-monroe-doctrine-9780809069996","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780809069996.jpg?v=de7bed1f4e3203c6","description":"A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American Empire President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe's message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it rapidly became the myth and means for subsequent generations of politicians to pursue expansionist foreign policies. Time and again, debates on the key issues of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foreign relations—expansion in the 1840s, Civil War diplomacy, the imperialism of 1898, entrance into World War I, and the establishment of the League of Nations—were framed in relation to the Monroe Doctrine. Covering more than a century of history, this engaging book explores the varying conceptions of the doctrine as its meaning evolved in relation to the needs of an expanding American empire. In Jay Sexton's adroit hands, the Monroe Doctrine provides a new lens from which to view the paradox at the center of American diplomatic history: the nation's interdependent traditions of anticolonialism and imperialism.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780809069996","publication_date":"20120228","publisher":"Farrar Straus & Giroux","slug":"the-monroe-doctrine","subtitle":"Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-century America","title":"The Monroe Doctrine"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"19th-Century America","score":0.7555,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.754,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Colonial America (to 1775)","score":0.7496,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"19th-Century America","score":0.7555,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.754,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Colonial America (to 1775)","score":0.7496,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036040","confidence_band":"high","label":"19th-Century America","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POL011010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Diplomacy","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"19th-Century America","score":0.7555,"slug":"19th-century-america"},{"label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.754,"slug":"revolutionary-america-1775-1800"},{"label":"Colonial America (to 1775)","score":0.7496,"slug":"colonial-america-to-1775"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in nineteenth-century U.S. foreign relations","Readers exploring the tension between anticolonialism and imperialism"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Tim McGrath"],"book_id":"9780451477279","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780451477279.jpg?v=338f36f77f334d38","score":0.7287,"title":"James Monroe","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780451477279"},{"authors":["Niall Ferguson"],"book_id":"9780143034797","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780143034797.jpg?v=9b2dc460a0b5793c","score":0.7082,"title":"Colossus","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780143034797"},{"authors":["Stephen Chambers"],"book_id":"9781781689998","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781781689998.jpg?v=89819cb5012c0f30","score":0.7014,"title":"No God But Gain","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781781689998"},{"authors":["José Martí"],"book_id":"9780853454038","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780853454038.jpg?v=ca14402792b8095f","score":0.6997,"title":"Inside the Monster","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780853454038"},{"authors":["Greg Grandin"],"book_id":"9781250753298","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250753298.jpg?v=50102406d1ebf11d","score":0.6891,"title":"Empire's Workshop","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250753298"},{"authors":["Edward L. Ayers"],"book_id":"9781324086307","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781324086307.jpg?v=afad6c39ba31deb7","score":0.6889,"title":"American Visions","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781324086307"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:foreign policy history"],"label":"History","score":0.4536,"slug":"history"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:james monroe biography"],"label":"Biography","score":0.0744,"slug":"biography"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:early american history"],"label":"Early","score":0.0401,"slug":"early"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:19th century american history"],"label":"Century","score":0.0323,"slug":"century"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: U.S. diplomatic history, Anticolonialism and imperialism, American expansionism.","Themes: History, Biography, Early.","Reading lane: 19th Century America and Revolutionary America (1775 1800)."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.94,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in nineteenth-century U.S. foreign relations","Readers exploring the tension between anticolonialism and imperialism"],"themes":["U.S. diplomatic history","Anticolonialism and imperialism","American expansionism"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":0,"goodreads_ratings_count":126,"goodreads_reviews_count":17,"quality_score":0.8692}}