American Diplomats in the Netherlands, 1815-50 (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History) - Hardcover

A case study in American-European diplomatic relations during the first half of the 19th century, drawing on official and private correspondence to detail the lives and activities of US diplomats assigned to The Hague and Brussels. Notes that they viewed Europe through skeptical American eyes, and often exaggerated the antithesis between the Old World and the New, but were overall more competent than their reputation suggests. Translated from the 1991 Dutch original. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.