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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 20: April 1791 to August 1791
Thomas Jefferson
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Description for The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 20: April 1791 to August 1791
Hardback. Documents Edmond Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses. Editor(s): Boyd, Julian P. Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Num Pages: 800 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 278 x 153 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1285.
This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses. After welcoming Genet's arrival as the harbinger of closer relations between the American and French republics, Jefferson becomes increasingly distressed by the French minister's defiance of the Washington administration's ban on the outfitting of French privateers in American ports, the enlistment of American citizens in French service, and the exercise of admiralty jurisdiction by French consuls in American ports. Although the Supreme Court declines to advise the executive branch on neutrality questions that Jefferson prepares with the President ... Read more
This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses. After welcoming Genet's arrival as the harbinger of closer relations between the American and French republics, Jefferson becomes increasingly distressed by the French minister's defiance of the Washington administration's ban on the outfitting of French privateers in American ports, the enlistment of American citizens in French service, and the exercise of admiralty jurisdiction by French consuls in American ports. Although the Supreme Court declines to advise the executive branch on neutrality questions that Jefferson prepares with the President ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
792
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Series
Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Condition
New
Weight
1253g
Number of Pages
800
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691046860
SKU
V9780691046860
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