SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
George Washington Book Prize Finalist

A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

What does it mean to be a treaty-w...

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SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
George Washington Book Prize Finalist

A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

What does it mean to be a treaty-worthy nation?  No question mattered more to Americans in 1776.  As Eliga Gould shows in this prize-winning book, the need for international recognition touched every part of the United States' early history -- from the drafting of the Constitution, to relations between settlers and Indians, to the looming debate over slavery. 


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