Brooks: Diplomacy and the Borderlands


-- Adeosong the Fronier, 1830-1860. Norman, 1933.
 Thee books, by a scholar who has studied inteuivly the whole tory of the Indians
 who eventually settled in Oklahoma, a important for the earlyhistory of the upper
 Bed Rver and Bfo Grande region. and for an account of the liquidation of the lorlda
 Indian problem.
Powmrm, Aiatc History of Louisiana. 4 vols. New York, 1904.
 A omprehensve work, especially valuable for the later nineteenth century. For the
 earlier period it does not improve xraty on Gayrrd.
PFUrOS ANa. Napoldos t I'Fapqme, 1799-1808. 2 vol. Paris, 1930.
 A thorough ca pallaminating study aof raneo-pansh relations and their place in
 European politics, based upon research in the archives of Spain, France and other
 countries.
 FatrLm, Hums B. The Pswhase of Florida. Cleveland, 1906.
 This book, long accepted the standard cnt of the Adams-Onis Treaty, was
 based largely on the Amieris S St Papers, Adams' MJfeirs, and a curory reference
 to the archives of the tate Department. Its narrative of Florida border plots and con-
 liets is Its Mtronet point.
 The author ailed to ee the transontinental aspect of the treaty, and onsequeatly
 established in popular usag the erroneous interpetation expressed in the tite. Had
 the negotiation involved only a purchasee" of the loride, Adams would have had no
 reason to eouside it his geatest diplomatic achievement
 Fuller's work is, further, a notable example of the limitations of one-sided diplomatic
 study. Not a single Spanish item is eited, OnlI is negleted, and the Spanish negotiation
 appears only as seen in the notes published In the Americas Btat Papers and in
 Adams' caustit comments. Upon such an inadequate foundation Fuller built a lamenta-
 tion over our sin of aggrandiement.
 GAULamr, ALUZM. The Oregos Questio. New York, 1846.
 Most of the controversial literature o the 'ortie referred lightly, if at al, to
 the treaty of 1819. Sine, as Professor MeYk has shown the ar in dispute them wa
 between the Columbia and the Forty-ninth Parallel, the Caliorna-Oreon line was not
 in the limelight. Glatia. however, in urging mutual conmesions and an amiable
 settlement with Zngland. deprecated the validity at the Spanish title acquired in the
 Adam-Onls Treaty. His arguments do not prelude the concluion of the present
 writer that this country obtained an equity of appreciable leal value from Spain.
 GOQA eox, Guoam P. Teas, A Costest of Civilisatios. New York, 1903.
 A useful survey, although supplanted in many detail by later research.
 GA~au., CKAZL18 History of Lousana. 4 vola. in 3. New Orleas, 1854-
 1866.
 The lassie history of Louisaana this work remains an invaluable authority. ee
 espeally volumes III aad IV, covering the Spanish and American periods.
 Gnomor ma GaNDMutoso, CHnaLus A. L'Bspagse et Napol&eo. 3 vols. Paris,
 1908-1931.
 A detailed account, 1804 to 1814, but one in which afairs of the United States
 appear infrequently.
 Goams, W. J. The Zorly For West. New York, 193L
 A Mampopular sketh including information on explorers and far traders on the
 Spanish frontier.
 Gam1a, Fams Auaa. Buassa Bpaunsios on the Pao fe, 1641-1850. Cleve-
 land, 1914.
 This book deals largely with the eventeethnthentury Bassian explorations which
 became the basis of territorial laims.
 GooMwin CAaMINAL L. The TramMississippi West, 1805-1853. New York,
 1922.
 A valuable outlin and narrative for any study of Western expansion.