Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Pax Britannica
- Ist Teil von
- Among the Powers of the Earth, 2012, p.79-110
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Harvard University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Paul Wentworth was said to be one of the cleverest men in England. A gifted linguist and shrewd diplomat, the Barbados native had been, by turns, a merchant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a planter on the Demerara River in Surinam, and a wealthy speculator and man of fashion in London. For all these reasons, he seemed like a natural choice to lead Britain’s last-ditch effort to dissuade Benjamin Franklin, Congress’s emissary in Paris, from concluding an alliance with France.¹ But even Wentworth was unprepared for what the famously urbane American had to say when the two met in early 1778.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780674046085, 0674046080DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674065024.c4Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt24hjg8_7
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- American minorities, Anthropology, Applied sciences, Armed conflict, Behavioral sciences, Business, Business operations, Businesspeople, Colonies, Commerce, Economic disciplines, Economics, Employment, Engineering, Ethnic groups, Ethnology, Fur trade, Government, Government officials, Governors, Human geography, International law, International politics, International relations, Labor economics, Law, Maritime fur trade, Merchants, Military science, Native Americans, Navigation, Occupations, Peace treaties, Peacetime, Political geography, Political science, Politics, Ships, Social sciences, Trade, Transportation, Transportation engineering, Treaties, Vehicles, War, Watercraft