| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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The Nationalist Ferment: The Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789–1812. By Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, trans. Lillian A. Parrott. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004. xxii, 274 pp. $79.95, ISBN 0-8142-0941-6.)

Historians of American foreign relations have usually synthesized their interpretations of the nation's diplomacy and its outcomes by resorting to various combinations of the generally accepted meanings of such terms as isolationism, exceptionalism, idealism, realism, and expansionism. Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, a French scholar, is thoroughly familiar with this tradition, and she incorporates it into her own survey of the foreign policy of the early republic from 1789 to 1812. To these familiar terms, however, she proposes to add the category of nationalism as the best way of grasping the wholeness of America's experience in world affairs during its formative period.

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