Table of Contents:
  • The British objectives, 1780-1783 : "If not dominion then trade" / Esmond Wright
  • Preparing for peace : the objectives of the United States, France, and Spain in the War of the American Revolution / Gregg L. Lint
  • The American negotiators : the diplomacy of jealousy / James H. Hutson
  • Britain's peacemakers, 1782-1783 : "To an astonishing degree unfit for the task"? / Charles R. Ritcheson
  • Vergennes, Rayneval, and the diplomacy of trust / Jonathan R. Dull
  • "They will all speak English" : some cultural consequences of independence / Marcus Cunliffe
  • Military nationalism in Europe in the aftermath of the American Revolution / Samuel F. Scott
  • The peace of Paris : patterns and legacies / Bradford Perkins
  • The durable significance of the Treaty of 1783 / Richard B. Morris