The Diplomacy of the American Revolution

by Samuel Flagg Bemis, Ben Judge (Introduction)

Overview

After a preliminary glimpse of America as a factor in European diplomacy from the discovery to the eve of the revolution of the English Colonies, this volume describes and interprets the diplomatic history of the American Revolution and the establishment of the independence of the United States. It is a chronicle of momentous import to the modern world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641773768
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	02/13/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

SAMUEL FLAGG BEMIS (1891-1973) was the Sterling Professor of Diplomatic History and Inter-American Relations at Yale University. He authored, among others, Jay’s Treaty: A Study in Commerce and Diplomacy, Pinckney’s Treaty: America’s Advantage from Europe’s Distress (winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize), The America Secretaries of State and their Diplomacy, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, A Diplomatic History of the United States, The Latin America Policy of the United States, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize), and John Quincy Adams and the Union. Bemis received his PhD from Harvard University and his BA from Clark University.

BEN JUDGE is president of The America Fund. He is the editor of United and Independent: John Quincy Adams on American Foreign Policy and creator and executive producer of the documentary Right Makes Might: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Ben holds a PhD in political science from Claremont Graduate University and served in the United States Navy Reserve.