Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. An American Statesman -- 1. The Man and the Nation -- 2. Jefferson and the Diplomacy of the Old Regime -- 3. "Conquering Without War," -- Part II. The Development of Republican Statecraft (1783-1801) -- 4. Commerce, Manufactures, and the West -- 5. The Rival Systems of Hamilton and Jefferson -- 6. Neutrality and the Law of Nations -- 7. The Diplomacy of Federalism -- 8. Toward the Republican Triumph of 1800 -- Part III. The Diplomacy of Expansion (1801-5) -- 9. The Nature of Jefferson's Success -- 10. The Significance of the Mississippi Valley -- 11. Napoleon's Colonial Design -- 12. War and Alliance in Republican Diplomacy -- 13. "Playing for Time" -- 14. The Gambit for West Florida -- 15. Lessons of the Louisiana Purchase -- 16. The Empire of Liberty: The Conflict between Means and Ends -- Part IV. The Maritime Crisis (1805-9) -- 17. The Nature of Jefferson's Failure -- 18. Jefferson's Diplomatic Design -- 19. The Anglo-American Dispute: Neutral Rights and Impressment -- 20. The Abortive Peace Settlement -- 21. Jefferson and the Embargo -- 22. Neutral Rights versus the Balance of Power -- 23. Embargo and War -- Part V. The Jeffersonian Legacy -- 24. The Role of a Democratic Foreign Policy -- 25. The Isolationist Impulse -- 26. Jefferson and Liberty: Exemplar or Crusader? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.