For students and scholars of international relations and U.S. foreign policy, this book examines how the United States adopted and contributed to the practices of international society.

1. The United States in the Nineteenth Century International Society: An Introduction 2. 19th century America's Role in Global History 3. The American Founding and the Society of States 4. America and the Other Revolutions: Neutrality and Non-engagement in Latin America and Greece 5. The United States, the Monroe Doctrine and International Society 6. Slaves, Indians, and European Legal Formalism in 19th Century America 7. The United States inside 'British International Society': Imperial Rivalries and Compatibilities 8. The United States and the Liberal Transformation of International Society: The Institution of Sovereignty 9. Wheaton's Elements and the Expansion of International Society 10. America and the rise of Arbitration as an Institution of International Society: American and British Treaties from 1783-1871 11. The United States as a Great Power: The Long Road to the Nineteenth-Century Acceptance of Rank 12. Constituting the Long 19th Century: the United States and the Primary Institutions of International Society