Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander Hamilton and the Political Thought of the Gilded Age
Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander Hamilton and the Political Thought of the Gilded Age
Annotated and Introduced by H.G. Callaway
Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander Hamilton and the Political Thought of the Gilded Age
Annotated and Introduced by H.G. Callaway
This book first published 2019
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton “ ” ’ ’ ’ ’ Alexander Hamilton ’ — ’
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The Promise of American Life —
INTRODUCTION: LODGE, HAMILTON AND THE POLITICS OF THE GILDED AGE
1. Globalization: retrospect and prospects
Modern western history exhibits three great episodes of commercial and political globalization.1 The first two episodes vastly expanded intercontinental trade, immigration, human contacts and coloniza- tion, and following intermittent military and diplomatic conflicts, culminated in large-scale war. We are presently experiencing a third episode. It is important to understand the gigantic economic and competing political ideas and forces at work, and perhaps attempt to influence how they will play out. The present work attends—within a limited domain and focus—to the first two episodes. Alexander Hamilton was a major influence in forming the American federal government, and especially its fiscal, economic and trade policies, toward the end of the first episode; and Henry Cabot Lodge, partly looking back to Hamilton for inspiration, played crucial political roles in forming and implementing Ameri- can politics and policy during the second episode. Both Hamilton and Lodge were conservatives, proud American nationalists and advocates of the centralization of power in the federal government. They share “aristocratic” (or elitist) sympathies and a political real- ist cast of thought.2 The first episode followed the European voyages of exploration and discovery of the old and New World and subsequent coloniza- tion by western European powers: Great Britain, France, Spain and
1. “Globalization”: the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by expansion of trade, free flow of capital and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets. Compare “global- ism”: (1943) a national policy of treating the whole world as a proper sphere of political influence. 2. See Lodge 1882, below, on the idea of the “aristocratic republic,” pp. 31, 85, 91, 186.
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The Purpose of the Past “
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Alexander Hamilton ’ The Shame of the Cities
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’ Speeches and Addresses The War Lovers Roosevelt Lodge Hearst and the Rush to Empire 1898.
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First Great Triumph How Five Americans made their Country a World Power After the Neocons Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge 1884-1918 ’ Mornings on Horseback The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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The Gentleman from Massachusetts “ ” Henry Cabot Lodge Ibid
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Life and Letters of George Cabot Henry Cabot Lodge “ ” Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship 1880-1919 Lady Baltimore ’ — Roosevelt
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A Straight Deal, or The Ancient Grudge ’ Roosevelt Henry Cabot Lodge “ … ” Henry Cabot Lodge From Colony to Superpower
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