For students and scholars of international relations and U.S. foreign policy, this book examines how the United States adopted and contributed to the practices of international society.

Cornelia Navari, formerly Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK, is Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham, UK. She has edited International Society: The English School for the EISA Pivot Series (2021), International Organization in the Anarchical Society (2019), and Power Transition in the Anarchical Society (2022) with Tonny Brems Knudson. She edited Progressivism and American Foreign Policy between the World Wars with Molly Cochran (2017). Her latest monograph is The International Society Tradition (2021).

Yannis A. Stivachtis is Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His publications include The Enlargement of International Society (1998), World Society in English School Theory (2018, editor), Interrogating Regional International Societies, Questioning the Global International Society (2015, editor), EUrope and the World (2012, editor), Regional International Society in a Post-Enlargement Europe (2011, co-editor), International Order in a Globalizing World (2007, editor), and Understanding European Union's Mediterranean Enlargement: The English School and the Expansion of Regional International Societies (2002, co-editor).

1. The United States in the Nineteenth Century International Society: An Introduction 2. 19th century America's Role in Global History 3. The American Founding and the Society of States 4. America and the Other Revolutions: Neutrality and Non-engagement in Latin America and Greece 5. The United States, the Monroe Doctrine and International Society 6. Slaves, Indians, and European Legal Formalism in 19th Century America 7. The United States inside 'British International Society': Imperial Rivalries and Compatibilities 8. The United States and the Liberal Transformation of International Society: The Institution of Sovereignty 9. Wheaton's Elements and the Expansion of International Society 10. America and the rise of Arbitration as an Institution of International Society: American and British Treaties from 1783-1871 11. The United States as a Great Power: The Long Road to the Nineteenth-Century Acceptance of Rank 12. Constituting the Long 19th Century: the United States and the Primary Institutions of International Society