'Jasper Trautsch's examination of the crucial role played by foreign policy in the creation of American national identity during the founding decades of the United States is a masterwork of historical analysis. …His book will prove a landmark in the field … Trautsch has produced the twenty-first century's best account of the origins and nature of American nationalism.' Paul T. McCartney, National Identities
Introduction; 1. Political ideologies and American identity in the era of the French Revolution; 2. Foreign policies of unneutrality and the Jay Treaty; 3. Federalists and the origins of the Quasi-War; 4. Disentangling America from France; 5. Republicans and the origins of the War of 1812; 6. Disentangling America from Great Britain; Conclusion.