Description
Book SynopsisOffers a study of the peace negotiations which ended the American War of Independence. This title challenges traditional views and uses a wide range of sources to provide a detailed analysis of the treaties signed between Britain and France, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States.
Trade Review... Turns the established view of the creation of the USA upon its head ...
This splendidly produced volume needs to be set in the historiographical context of its subject, one much written about from varying national viewpoints ... The merits of this book by Andrew Stockley are that he incorporates recent scholarship; adds new material of his own; notes the impact of internal politics in Britain and France; and, above all, as his title suggests, puts the whole topic in a European rather than American setting ... An excellent synthesis of a complicated topic, leavened with fresh material and marked by an original approach. * The British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 25.1 *
Highly recommended for all college libraries. * Choice, Vol. 39, No. 6 *
The specialist will find much to enjoy and benefit from, especially the analysis of the construction of a viable British foreign policy towards the American colonies and their European allies. * The International History Review, Vol. 24:1 *
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on References
- Summary Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 The Approach of Peace
- 2 The Birth of America
- 3 Shelburne, Vergennes and the European Settlement
- 4 The Domestic Political Context
- 5 Fox and the 1783 Negotiations
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Dramatis Personae
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
