Papers of John Adams: June 1783 - January 1784 - Couverture rigide

Adams, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674051238 ISBN 13 : 9780674051232

Editeur : The Belknap Press, 2010

Synopsis

On September 3, 1783, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay signed the definitive Anglo-American peace treaty. Adams and his colleagues strived to establish a viable relationship between the new nation and its largest trading partner but were stymied by rising British anti-Americanism.

Adams' diplomatic efforts were also complicated by domestic turmoil. Americans, in a rehearsal for the later Federalist-Antifederalist conflict over the United States Constitution, were debating the proper relationship between the central government and the states. Adams, a Federalist as early as 1783, argued persuasively for a government that honored its treaties and paid its foreign debts. But when bills far exceeding the funds available for their redemption were sent to Europe, he was forced to undertake a dangerous winter journey to the Netherlands to raise a new loan and save the United States from financial disaster.

None of the founding fathers equals the candor of John Adams' observations of his eighteenth-century world. His letters, always interesting, reveal with absolute clarity Adams' positions on the personalities and issues of his times.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Gregg L. Lint is Series Editor for the Papers of John Adams of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

C. James Taylor is former Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Hobson Woodward is Series Editor for the Adams Family Correspondence of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Margaret A. Hogan is an independent scholar and former editor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Sara B. Sikes is Scholarly Communications Design Studio Coordinator at the University of Connecticut and former Associate Editor for Digital Projects of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Belknap Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674051238
• ISBN 13: 9780674051232
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Éditeur: Lint Gregg L., Taylor C. James, Karachuk Robert F., Woodward Hobson, Hogan Margaret A., Sikes Sara B., Claffey Mary T., Barzilay Karen N.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible