Joel Barlow, American Diplomat and Nation Builder
Joel Barlow was the early republic's most tenacious diplomat, a cheerful volunteer for difficult missions. His hard-won treaties with Algiers,Tunis, and Tripoli ended, at least briefly, the attacks of Barbary pirates on American shipping in the Mediterranean. And on the eve of the War of 1812,Madison sent him to France where he subsequently won important wartime concessions from Napoleon. Young Barlow wrote The Vision of Columbus, his would-be epic poem, while serving as an army chaplain fresh out of Yale University. He later sold western lands to French emigres, ran for a seat in the French National Assembly, escaped the Terror, and ultimat…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-59797-682-4
- EAN: 9781597976824
- Produktnummer: 7882606
- Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.0 cm 526 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 526
Über den Autor
Peter P. Hill is professor emeritus of history at the George Washington University and the author of several books, including Napoleon's Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815 (Potomac Books, Inc., 2006) and French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793. He lives in Brunswick, Maine.
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