London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. Glasgow: 263, ARGYLE STREET. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. PREFACE. JX1725 THE following pages are published for the most part in the form in which they were written during the summer of 1896 in competition for the Members' Prize. Some re-arrangement has, however, been made, and in particular Chapter II., describing generally the diplomatic situation in 1823, has been condensed from what was originally a more elaborate examination of those international relations which may be regarded as the remoter causes of the Monroe Doctrine. One of the factors which produced these relations, the group of revolted colonies that may be collectively described as Spanish America, has been separately treated of in an Appendix. Nothing newly published has seemed to the author to render necessary any modification of the main conclusions of the essay:-that the evolution of the Monroe Doctrine was gradual; that the peculiar form M802397 |