About this title: A new chapter in John Adams's diplomatic career opened when the Dutch recognised 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 18th Century American diplomacy on the eve of a peace settlement ending the eight-year war of the American Revolution. John Adams was a shrewd observer of the political and ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press,, Cambridge:
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780674018129ISBN:0674018125
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0674018125. First edition. Very near fine in like (two tiny closed edge tears) dust jacket.; 607 pages. read more
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