SHEAR Book Prize (2013), Society for Historians of the Early American Republic George Washington Book Prize Finalist(2013) A Library Journal Best Book of 2012
What does it mean to be a treaty-worthy nation?No question mattered more to Americans in 1776.As Eliga Gould shows in this prize-winning book, the need for international recognition touched every part of the United States' early history -- from the drafting of the Constitution, to relations between settlers and Indians, to the looming debate over slavery.