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This volume chronicles Adams's efforts, against great odds, to achieve formal recognition of the new United States. The documents include his vigorous response to criticism of his seemingly unorthodox methods by those who would have preferred that he pursue a different course, including Congress's newly appointed secretary for foreign affairs, Robert R. Livingston.

On the last day of December 1780 John Adams wrote that he had just spent "the most anxious and mortifying Year of my whole Life." He had resided first at Paris, then at Amsterdam, attempting, without success, to open Anglo-American peace negotiations and to raise a Dutch loan. In volumes 9 and 10 of the "Papers of John Adams, " over 600 letters and documents that Adams sent to and received from numerous correspondents in Europe and America pro...

In mid-March 1781 John Adams received his commission and instructions as minister to the Netherlands and embarked on the boldest initiative of his diplomatic career. Disappointed by the lack of interest shown by Dutch investors in his efforts to raise a loan for the United States, Adams changed his tactics, and in a memorial made a forthright appeal to the States General of the Netherlands for immediate recognition of the United States. Publis...

These volumes provide an unparalleled account of the conduct of American diplomacy in the early years of the republic, while the war with Britain continued and after the treaty of alliance with France was signed. John Adams served for ten months as a commissioner to France. Though he was the newest member of the three-man commission, he was its chief administrator, handling most of its correspondence, and his papers are the first full document...

The period of June 1836 to February 1840, from Charles Francis Adams' twenty--eighth to thirty--second year, was characterized by his turn from the political activities that had occupied him for the preceding several years. The course of the Van Buren administration he had helped to elect dissatisfied him, the Massachusetts Whig leadership had earned his distrust, positions on political issues that would either echo or oppose those being vigor...

Vol. : Margaret A. Hogan ... (et al.), editors.

Richard Adams was born in 1920 and later went on to study at Worcester College, Oxford (of which he was a Scholar). He served for five and a half years in the army during the Second World War and then joined the higher civil service in Whitehall. He is most well known as the author of Watership Down, published in 1972, which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for Children's Literature. Nicola Bayley has illustrated many acclaim...

A user-friendly guide to identifying and understanding the spiders of the Pacific Coast. There are 67 families of spiders found in North America, and 59 of them can be found in California. This field guide will cover all 59 of those families, including introduced species and common garden spiders--those will be given extra coverage. Each family is reviewed including details of their identification, taxonomy, distribution, and natural history. ...

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40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams' picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits - Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of our time. Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen. And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent? So together Hazel and Fiver and a few other brave rabbits secretly leave b...

Here is the enchanting sequel to the beloved classic Watership Down, which introduced millions of readers to an extraordinary world of rabbits-including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion, and the legendary hero El-ahrairah. Tales From Watership Down returns to these unforgettable characters, and also presents new heroes as they struggle to survive the cruelties of nature and the shortsighted selfishness of humankind, embark on new adventures, an...

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Apachen-Häuptling Cochise (Jeff Chandler) und die US-Kavallerie haben das Kriegsbeil begraben. Doch der Frieden wird empfindlich gestört, als ein Regierungsbeauftragter aus Washington die Indianer gegen die Weißen aufhetzt. Als der Konflikt eskaliert, verbündet sich Cochise mit Geronimo und es kommt zu einer großen Schlacht am Apachen-Pass.Mit "Die Schlacht am Apachen-Pass" präsentiert Koch Media die Fortsetzung des wegweisenden Western-Klassi...

A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams¿ spellbinding classic Watership Down¿is one of the best-loved animal stories of all time. Set in the beautiful English countryside of the Berkshire Downs, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a small band of rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a developer. Led by a stout-hearted pair of brothers, Fiver and Hazel, they leave the safety of...

Subtitled, "Photographs & Conversations".

Richard Adams's classic adventure story about two dogs who escape from an experimental research lab in the lake district, a topical allegory which addresses the issue of animal rights.

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The result of many years of research in Guatemala, this volume utilizes the author's fieldwork as well as that of his colleagues and students to construct a set of concepts explaining how Guatemala reached the difficult circumstances in which it found itself in the 1960s-and still finds itself today.

April 1865. Rauch verdunkelt den Himmel, die Erde erbebt unter den gnadenlosen Schüssen von Kanonen und Mörsern, Tod und Verwüstung sind allgegenwärtig. Gegen alle Chancen reitet der Südstaatengeneral Lee mit seinem treuen Pferd Traveller in die Schlacht, um eine Welt zu retten, deren Untergang längst besiegelt ist. Und obwohl das Pferd weder die Beweggründe für den blutigsten Konflikt auf amerikanischem Boden versteht, noch seine Angst im Ang...