The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 26: 11 May-31 August 1793

by Thomas Jefferson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691047782
• ISBN13: 9780691047782
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 650 Pages
• Weight: 3.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"