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OverviewIn mid-March 1781, John Adams received his commission and instructions as minister to the Netherlands and embarked on the boldest initiative of his diplomatic career. Disappointed by the lack of interest shown by Dutch investors in his efforts to raise a loan for the United States, Adams changed his tactics, and in a memorial made a forthright appeal to the States General of the Netherlands for immediate recognition of the United States. Published in Dutch, English, and French, it offered all of Europe a radical vision of the ordinary citizen's role in determining political events. In this volume, for the first time, the circumstances and reasoning behind Adams's bold moves in the spring of 1781 are presented in full. In July the French court summoned Adams, the only American in Europe empowered to negotiate an Anglo–American peace, to Paris for consultations regarding an offer made by Austria and Russia to mediate the Anglo–French war. In his correspondence with France's foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes, Adams passionately insisted that the United States was fully and unambiguously independent and sovereign and must be recognized as such by Great Britain before any negotiations took place. This volume shows John Adams to be a determined and resourceful diplomat, unafraid to go beyond the bounds of traditional diplomacy to implement his vision of American foreign policy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Adams , Gregg L. Lint , Richard Alan Ryerson , Anne Decker CecerePublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: The Belknap Press Volume: v. 11 Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 1.370kg ISBN: 9780674011366ISBN 10: 0674011368 Pages: 568 Publication Date: 30 June 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsDescriptive List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Public Diplomacy at the Hague 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, January-September 1781 Appendix: List of Omitted Documents IndexReviewsThese volumes [11 and 12] are elegantly produced and contain many helpful features...No reference library of note should be without a complete set of the Papers of John Adams , and no historian of the American Revolution in general, or the diplomacy of this era in particular, should fail to use these volumes extensively. -- David B. Mattern New England Quarterly (09/01/2005) Author InformationGregg 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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