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Author Graebner, Norman A.

Title Foreign affairs and the founding fathers : from confederation to constitution, 1776-1787 / Norman A. Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph M. Siracusa.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 199 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The challenge of external relations -- America enters the international community -- The challenge of independence -- American diplomats engage Britain and France -- American diplomats engage the Barbary pirates and Spain -- The crisis of 1786 : call for constitutional revision -- External relations and the constitution, 1787 -- The ratification debate : how important foreign policy?
Summary This concise diplomatic history of the Confederation era is the first new work on the topic in a generation. In its pages, three distinguished diplomatic historians offer a realist interpretation of the way in which the Founding Fathers conducted foreign affairs, refreshing our collective memory about their priorities and their values.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Constitutional history -- United States.
Constitutional history.
United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1775-1783
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-
Chronological Term 1783-
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.
Philosophy.
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Diplomatic relations.
Diplomatic relations -- Philosophy.
Chronological Term Since 1775
Added Author Burns, Richard Dean.
Siracusa, Joseph M.
Other Form: Print version: Graebner, Norman A. Foreign affairs and the founding fathers. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2011 (DLC) 2011019817
ISBN 9780313398278 (electronic book)
0313398275 (electronic book)
9780313398261

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