Historia
Papers of John Adams: Volume 15
John Adams • Gregg L Lint • C James Taylor • Robert F Karachuk • Hobson Woodward
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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.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9780674051232
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 592
- Utgivningsdatum: 2010-05-15
- Förlag: The Belknap Press