Book Details
PAPERS OF JOHN ADAMS VOL - 13 : 1 MAY - 26 OCTOBER 1782
ISBN 9780674018129
Pages 648
Year 2006
Edition 1
Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subject LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS
Description
A new chapter in John Adams’s diplomatic career opened when the Dutch recognized the United States in April 1782. Operating from the recently purchased American legation at The Hague, Adams focused his energies on raising a much needed loan from Dutch bankers and negotiating a Dutch-American commercial treaty. This volume chronicles Adams’s efforts to achieve these objectives, but it also provides an unparalleled view of eighteenth-century American diplomacy on the eve of a peace settlement ending the eight-year war of the American Revolution.
About Author(s)
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C. James Taylor is Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Margaret A. Hogan is Editor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Content
Descriptive List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 The Business of Diplomacy
2 John Adams and His Letterbooks
3 Notes on Editorial Method
Acknowledgments
Guide to Editorial Apparatus
1 Textual Devices
2 Adams Family Code Names
3 Descriptive Symbols
4 Location Symbols
5 Other Abbreviations and Conventional Terms
6 Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited
Papers of John Adams, May-October
Appendix:List of Omitted Documents
Index
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