Robert L. Beisner is the author of From the Old Diplomacy to the New: 1865 - 1900, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.

• Introduction 1One: Underlying Themes and Issues 3Circumstantial Givens 3American Beliefs and Traditions 9Conflicting Interpretations 12Two: Old Paradigm Policy, 1865-1889 32Paradigms and Diplomacy 32The Alabama claims and Mexico 38Seward, Grant, and Blaine 44A Navy Fit Enough 57Day-to-Day Diplomatic Preoccupations 60Three: From the Old to the New Foreign Policy paradigm 72Sudden Blows to the Old Paradigm 72The Impact of Cumulative Change 77The New Paradigm 84Four: Early years of the New Era, 1889-1897 96Benjamin Harrison 96Grover Cleveland 106Five: War, Policy, and Imperialism at the End of the Century, 1897-1900 120War and Empire 122The Open Door Policy 144Harbingers 154Bibliographical Essay 159Subject Index 183Author Index 193

"Robert Beisner has provided a good updating of an already solid work, and From the Old Diplomacy to the New can be recommended for a nineteenth-century diplomatic history course." (Teaching History, 1986)Praise for the first edition:"... an important new interpretation of foreign relations in the Gilded Age and an impressive challenge for future analysis." (Pacific Historical Review, February 1976)