Revolutionary negotiations : Indians, empires, and diplomats in the founding of America / Leonard J. Sadosky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadosky, Leonard J.

Series:

Jeffersonian America.

Jeffersonian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Government relations--To 1789.

Indians of North America--Government relations--1789-1869.

United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783.

United States--Foreign relations--1783-1865.

United States--Foreign relations--To 1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These negotiations truly were revolutionary.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue The Cherokee Emperor

Chapter 1: ''In the Nature of Ambassadors'' North American Diplomacy within the British Empire

Chapter 2: ''In an Odd State'' The American Decision to Leave the British Empire

Chapter 3: ''Are We Not . . . Independent States?'' Imagining and Realizing an Independent America

Chapter 4: ''Rendering Us Great and Respectable in the Eyes of the World'' The Diplomatic Imperative for the Federal Constitution

Chapter 5: ''To Be Considered as Foreign Nations'' The Ambiguous Triumph of Federalist Statecraft

Chapter 6: Enlarging ''Our Association'' The Triumph of the Diplomacy of Conquest

Epilogue The Cherokee Lawyer

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585578

9781280490347

1280490349

9780813928708

0813928702

OCLC:

753977982