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Description
THE DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF GEORGIA: A STUDY OF THE EPOCH OF JENKINS' EAR
Book Details + Condition: The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC). First Edition, 1936. Hardcover with original dust jacket. 255 pages with Index. Illustrated with portraits and fold-out maps. Author John Tate Lanning chronicles the first half of the 18th century, a period that saw the contest for supremacy in the Southeastern corner of North America among Spain, England, and France. Particular attention is focused on the competition between Spain and England for the settlement of Georgia and the consequent fur trade. The book details diplomatic negotiations and more aggressive methods, which resulted in such events as the The War of Jenkins' Ear. Chapters include:
- First Diplomatic Jousts
- Founding A Colony: Conferences in Georgia and Florida
- Don Miguel Wall and The Spanish Attempt Against the Existence of Georgia
- Spanish Alarums and English Excursions in European Diplomacy
- Georgia and the Failure of the Convention of Pardo: The Diplomatic Collapse of 1739
- America and Jenkins' Ear
- The Seal of Oglethorpe's Diplomacy
Firm binding; wear to boards, with darkening and rubbing to cloth; interior is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket shows wear, with nicks and small holes to edges; it has been price-clipped. All books are carefully packed and shipped in boxes.
