Richard Alan Ryerson - Böcker

I cannot O! I cannot be reconcild 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 Adamss correspondence to her husband in these v...

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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 ...

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The American victory at Yorktown in October 1781 and the fall of Lord Norths 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...

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The period of June 1836 to February 1840, from Charles Francis Adamss twenty-eighth to thirty-second year, was characterized by his turn from the political activities that had occupied him for the preceding several years. The course of the Van Bur...

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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 a...

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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 AngloAmerican peace negotiation...

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The success of the American Revolution is less likely to be understood through an examination of its ideological origins than through a close analysis of the political processes by which principles, beliefs, and anxieties were translated into revo...

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The success of the American Revolution is less likely to be understood through an examination of its ideological origins than through a close analysis of the political processes by which principles, beliefs, and anxieties were translated into revo...

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This first volume, spanning the first thirty-five years of William Penn's life, from 1644 to 1679, documents his activities as a young Quaker activist.

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This volume, covering the years 1680 to 1684, documents the founding of Pennsylvania.

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John Adams-lawyer, congressman, diplomat, vice president, and president-had one of the most varied and productive public careers of America's Revolutionary generation. His many achievements, taken for granted or even discounted through much of the...

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Scholars have examined John Adams's writings and beliefs for generations, but no one has brought such impressive credentials to the task as Richard Alan Ryerson in John Adams's Republic. The editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Historica...

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This first volume, spanning the first thirty-five years of William Penn's life, from 1644 to 1679, documents his activities as a young Quaker activist.

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This volume, covering the years 1680 to 1684, documents the founding of Pennsylvania.

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