CONTENTS
THE PATH OF EMPIRE
CHAPTER I. The Monroe Doctrine
CHAPTER II. Controversies With Great Britain
CHAPTER III. Alaska And Its Problems
CHAPTER IV. Blaine And Pan-Americanism
CHAPTER V. The United States And The Pacific
CHAPTER VI. Venezuela
CHAPTER VII. The Outbreak Of The War With Spain
CHAPTER VIII. Dewey And Manila Day
CHAPTER IX. The Blockade Of Cuba
CHAPTER X. The Preparation Of The Army
CHAPTER XI. The Campaign Of Santiago De Cuba
CHAPTER XII. The Close Of The War
CHAPTER XIII. A Peace Which Meant War
CHAPTER XIV. The Open Door
CHAPTER XV. The Panama Canal
CHAPTER XVI. Problems Of The Caribbean
CHAPTER XVII. World Relationships
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
In 1815 the world found peace after twenty-two years of continual war. In the forests of Canada and the pampas of South America, throughout all the countries of Europe, over the plains of Russia and the hills of Palestine, men and women had known what war was and had prayed that its horrors might never return. In even the most autocratic states subjects and rulers were for once of one mind: in the future war must be prevented. To secure peace forever was the earnest desire of two statesmen so strongly contrasted as the impressionable Czar Alexander I of Russia, acclaimed as the "White Angel" and the "Universal Savior," and Prince Metternich, the real ruler of Austria, the spider who was for the next thirty years to spin the web of European secret diplomacy. While the Czar invited all governments to unite in a "Holy Alliance" to prevent war, Metternich for the same purpose formed the less holy but more powerful "Quadruple Alliance" of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and England.
The designs of Metternich, however, went far beyond the mere prevention of war. To his mind the cause of all the upheavals which had convulsed Europe was the spirit of liberty bred in France in the days of the Revol