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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.lbhn4b
- isbn: 9782878541649
- eisbn: 9782878548365
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18e s. arts Grande-Bretagne guerres paix société History Literature, British Isles HIS015000 HBJD1Sujets proches
Hostilities Conflict, Armed (War) Wars Armed conflict (War) Fighting Coexistence, Peaceful Peaceful coexistenceCiter ce document
Max Byrd, « Thomas Jefferson and Great Britain in Peace and War », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.lbhn4b
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My subject is Thomas Jefferson’s attitude toward Great Britain in peace and war. And since I am now more practising novelist than scholar, let me begin by sketching a scene. In early March 1786 Jefferson, who was at that time the American Minister Plenipotentiary to France, was invited by John Adams, his counterpart in England, to come to London for a conference on certain matters of trade. They were to confer in London because Adams was a cranky man who disliked Paris very much, and also bec...