جزییات کتاب
SHEAR Book Prize (2013), Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicGeorge 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.