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Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6
October 1782 – December 1785
Av Adams Adams Family, Richard Alan Ryerson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
2839 kr
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“I cannot O! I cannot be reconcil’d to living as I have done for 3 years past… Will you let me try to soften, if I cannot wholy releave you, from your Burden of Cares and perplexities?” So begins Abigail Adams’s correspondence to her husband in these volumes: a plea to end their long separation, as …
Papers of John Adams
January–September 1781
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1378 kr
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In 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 …
Papers of John Adams
October 1781 – April 1782
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1378 kr
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The American victory at Yorktown in October 1781 and the fall of Lord North’s ministry in March 1782 opened the possibility that John Adams might soon be involved in negotiations to end the war for American independence. To prepare for the occasion, Adams and Benjamin Franklin discussed in their …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 7
January 1786 – February 1787
Av Adams Adams Family, Margaret A. Hogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1205 kr
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This volume continues the incredible family saga of the Adamses of Massachusetts as told through their myriad letters to one another, to their extended family, and to such other notable correspondents as Thomas Jefferson and Mercy Otis Warren. The book opens in January 1786, when John and Abigail …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 13 – May–October 1782
May–October 1782
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
820 kr
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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 …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 8
March 1787 – December 1789
Av Adams Adams Family, Margaret A. Hogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1224 kr
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By early 1787, as this latest volume of the award-winning series Adams Family Correspondence opens, John and Abigail Adams were eagerly planning their return home to Massachusetts from Great Britain, frustrated by John's lack of progress in his diplomatic mission and anxious for a reunion with …
Papers of John Adams
October 1782 – May 1783
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1249 kr
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John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an independent foreign policy, …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 9
January 1790 – December 1793
Av Adams Adams Family, Margaret A. Hogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1196 kr
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The years 1790 to 1793 marked the beginning of the American republic, a contentious period as the nation struggled to create a functioning government amid increasingly bitter factionalism. On the international stage, the turmoil of the French Revolution raised important questions about the nature …
Papers of John Adams
June 1783 – January 1784
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1192 kr
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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’ …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 10
January 1794 – June 1795
Av Adams Adams Family, Margaret A. Hogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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This volume offers over 300 letters from the irrepressible Adamses, including many between John and Abigail never before printed. As always, Adams family members serve as important observers of and commentators on national and international events, from America’s growing tensions with Britain and …
Papers of John Adams
February 1784 – March 1785
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
967 kr
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“Once more after an Interruption of ten Years, I pronounce myself a happy Man, and pray Heaven to continue me so.” Thus wrote John Adams in late August 1784 after the arrival in Europe of his wife Abigail and daughter Nabby. Adams and his family were living together in the pleasant Paris suburb of …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 11
July 1795–February 1797
Av Adams Adams Family, Margaret A. Hogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
997 kr
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The letters in this volume of Adams Family Correspondence span the period from July 1795 to the eve of John Adams’s inauguration, with the growing partisan divide leading up to the election playing a central role. The fiery debate over funding the Jay Treaty sets the political stage, and the …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 12
March 1797 – April 1798
Av Adams Adams Family, Sara Martin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
951 kr
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Volume 12 of Adams Family Correspondence, with 276 documents spanning from March 1797 through April 1798, opens with the inauguration of John Adams as president and closes just after details of the XYZ affair are made public in America. Through private networks of correspondence, the Adamses reveal …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 18 – December 1785 – January 1787
December 1785 – January 1787
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
915 kr
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Volume 18 is the final volume of the Papers of John Adams wholly devoted to Adams’ diplomatic career. It chronicles fourteen months of his tenure as minister to Great Britain and his joint commission, with Thomas Jefferson, to negotiate treaties with Europe and North Africa. With respect to …
Papers of John Adams
September 1755 – April 1775
Av John Adams, Robert J. Taylor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2754 kr
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No family in three generations has contributed so much to American history as the Adamses. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Charles Francis Adams, despite periods of doubt, knew that history, if not their contemporaries, would recognize their accomplishments. When the Adams Papers series is …
Papers of John Adams
May 1775 – August 1776
Av John Adams, Robert J. Taylor m. fl.
Inbunden, 1980
2635 kr
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As the American colonies grew more restive, and a break with the mother country ceased to be unthinkable, John Adams was forced to spend less and less time with his beloved family. Although burdened by ever-expanding responsibilities in the Second Continental Congress, he found time for an amazing …
Papers of John Adams
August 1776 – July 1778
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
2754 kr
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These volumes document John Adams’s thinking and actions during the final years of his congressional service and take him through his first five months as a Commissioner in France in association with Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee.While Adams was still in Philadelphia, military matters continued …
Papers of John Adams
September 1778 – February 1780
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
2754 kr
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These volumes provide an unparalleled account of the conduct of American diplomacy in the early years of the republic, while the war with Britain continued and after the treaty of alliance with France was signed. John Adams served for ten months as a commissioner to France. Though he was the newest …
Papers of John Adams
March–December 1780
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2839 kr
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On the last day of December 1780, John Adams wrote that he had just spent “the most anxious and mortifying Year of my whole Life.” He had resided first at Paris, then at Amsterdam, attempting, without success, to open Anglo–American peace negotiations and to raise a Dutch loan. In volumes 9 and 10 …
Papers of John Adams
April–November 1785
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
997 kr
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"You may well Suppose that I was the Focus of all Eyes," John Adams wrote on 2 June 1785 of his first audience with George III, which formally inaugurated the post of American minister to Great Britain. Eager to restore "the old good Nature and the old good Humour" between the two nations, Adams …