Documents of the Emerging Nation: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1775-1789Mary A. Giunta, J. Dane Hartgrove Scholarly Resources, 1998 - 311 pages Documents of the Emerging Nation traces the efforts of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and others to establish a credible international presence of the country as a new nation. Diplomatic despatches, private letters, and other documents from archives, libraries, and historical societies-including the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and French and British sources-reveal events in the formative years of U.S. diplomacy. |
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Wartime Diplomacy | 1 |
Benjamin Franklin to Committee | 4 |
FRENCH AID PRIOR TO FORMAL Treaties | 9 |
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