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23 produkter
A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown
Häftad, 2010
356 kr
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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 14
October 1799 – February 1801
Av Adams Adams Family, Hobson Woodward m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
870 kr
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John and Abigail Adams’ reflections on an emerging nation as they move into the new President’s House in Washington, D.C., are a highlight of the nearly 280 letters written over seventeen months printed in volume 14 of Adams Family Correspondence. The volume opens with the Adamses’ public and …
Papers of John Adams
June 1789 – February 1791
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
915 kr
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John Adams’s shaping of the vice presidency dominates this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles a formative era in American government spanning June 1789 to February 1791. As the first federal Congress struggled to interpret the US Constitution and implement a new economic …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 15
March 1801 – October 1804
Av Adams Adams Family, Hobson Woodward m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
897 kr
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John and Abigail Adams remained fully engaged in American political life after they left Washington, DC, for retirement in Quincy. A highlight of Volume 15 of Adams Family Correspondence is a series of letters between Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson that debated fundamental questions of the …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 16
November 1804 – July 1809
Av Adams Adams Family, Hobson Woodward m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
870 kr
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A growing tension between the United States and Great Britain permeates the 236 letters printed in Volume 16 of Adams Family Correspondence. The Embargo Act of 1807 cut off trade with the British in response to the harassment of American ships. John and Abigail Adams witnessed their neighbors’ …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 21 – March 1791 – January 1797
March 1791 – January 1797
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
942 kr
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Vice President John Adams and the US government faced a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles the period from March 1791 to January 1797. The grim shadow of the French Revolution and the whirlwind of a massive European war left political leaders …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 22 – February 1797 – February 1798
February 1797 – February 1798
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
915 kr
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Entering the presidency in full service to the American people, John Adams vowed: “Their Confidence, which has been the Chief Consolation of my Life, is too prescious and Sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly.” This volume of the Papers of John Adams charts the period from February 1797 to …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 23
March 1798 – June 1799
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1713 kr
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This volume of the Papers of John Adams explores the period from March 1798 to June 1799, showing how President John Adams strained to repair Franco-American relations. The XYZ Affair sank his initial plans for peace, compelling Adams to recalibrate his policy. Anxious to counter French …
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
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 …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 19 – February 1787 – May 1789
February 1787 – May 1789
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
897 kr
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“Huzza for the new World and farewell to the Old One,” John Adams wrote in late 1787, wrapping up a decade’s worth of diplomatic service in Europe. Volume 19 of the Papers of John Adams chronicles Adams’s last duties in London and The Hague. In the twenty-eight months documented here, he petitioned …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 13
May 1798 – September 1799
Av Adams Adams Family, Sara Martin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
888 kr
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The almost 300 letters in volume 13 of Adams Family Correspondence were written during seventeen tumultuous months of John Adams’s presidency. Consumed with executive duties, he depended on surrogates for much of his correspondence with family members. From Quincy, an ailing Abigail Adams wrote …
Brave Vessel
The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown
E-bok, 2009
147 kr
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"At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative." -Nathaniel Philbrick Merging maritime adventure and early colonial history, A Brave Vessel charts a little-known chapter of the past that offers a window on the inspiration for one of Shakespeare''s greatest …
