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Alexander DeConde

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Description:"Some readers may believe, as did the English novelist Thomas Hardy, that 'War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.' I warn them that I disagree. Peace fascinates me. I think that peace is the best kind of history, that it is important history..." With these words, Professor Alexander DeConde introduces The Quasi-War, a history of peacemaking. His is the first exhaustive study of the political and diplomatic background of the United States' first armed conflict with a foreign power and the outcome of the quarrel, which was one of the farthest reaching, and cheapest, diplomatic agreements in our history. The Treaty of Mortefontaine, which embodied this Convention of 1800, brought peace to American shipping in the Caribbean, abrogated our first entangling alliance dating from the 1778 Treaty of military aid with France, and opened the way for Jefferson's negotiations with Napoleon that led to the Louisiana Purchase. In the course of the dispute, many of the most fascinating figures of the period became involved-John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Napoleon Bonaparte and Toussaint L'Ouverture. War with France wa a very real possibility in 1798, particularly after officers in Paris refused to receive the official American envoys and when the published "XYZ" dispatches disclosed an attempt to bribe the United States in return for recognizing her emissaries. These affronts to the fledgling nation's pride, plus severe damage to American trade and naval crews, produced a "black cockade fever" which very nearly stampeded President Adamas into demanding a declaration of war that the Federalists in Congress were only too ready to give him.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797-1801. To get started finding The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797-1801, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 340

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Release: 1966

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Description: "Some readers may believe, as did the English novelist Thomas Hardy, that 'War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.' I warn them that I disagree. Peace fascinates me. I think that peace is the best kind of history, that it is important history..." With these words, Professor Alexander DeConde introduces The Quasi-War, a history of peacemaking. His is the first exhaustive study of the political and diplomatic background of the United States' first armed conflict with a foreign power and the outcome of the quarrel, which was one of the farthest reaching, and cheapest, diplomatic agreements in our history. The Treaty of Mortefontaine, which embodied this Convention of 1800, brought peace to American shipping in the Caribbean, abrogated our first entangling alliance dating from the 1778 Treaty of military aid with France, and opened the way for Jefferson's negotiations with Napoleon that led to the Louisiana Purchase. In the course of the dispute, many of the most fascinating figures of the period became involved-John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Napoleon Bonaparte and Toussaint L'Ouverture. War with France wa a very real possibility in 1798, particularly after officers in Paris refused to receive the official American envoys and when the published "XYZ" dispatches disclosed an attempt to bribe the United States in return for recognizing her emissaries. These affronts to the fledgling nation's pride, plus severe damage to American trade and naval crews, produced a "black cockade fever" which very nearly stampeded President Adamas into demanding a declaration of war that the Federalists in Congress were only too ready to give him.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797-1801. To get started finding The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797-1801, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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