The Papers of George Washington: Confederation Series : January to July 1784 (1) - Rilegato

Washington, George; Abbot, W. W.

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ISBN 10: 0813913489 ISBN 13: 9780813913483

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1992

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This is part of a series which begins on 1 January 1784 with the hero of the American Revolution back at Mount Vernon under his own ""fig tree and vine"", and ends in September 1788 on the eve of his return to public life as president under the new Constitution. The Confederation Series is composed almost entirely of personal letters and includes very few official documents. Documents printed in Volume 1 reflect Washington's main concerns during the first months of peace. Many letters related directly to his resumption of the management not only of his house and farms at Mount Vernon, as well as of his tenanted land in Frederick and Berkeley counties and in Pennsylvania, but also of his vast holdings on the banks of the Great Kanawha and Ohio. Other letters deal with such things as the settlement of his military accounts, his activities as both president and determined reformer of the Society of the Cincinnati, and his preliminary notions about making the Potomac the connecting link between the East and the transmontane West.

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• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0813913489
• ISBN 13: 9780813913483
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 566
• Redattore: Twohig Dorothy